Venustus Fish
This fish has a life span of up to 10 years.
Venustus fish. The venustus is a good sized cichlid with a stocky elongated body and a large mouth. In the wild venustus feed almost exclusively on small fish and invertebrates. Ranked 614 out of 7462 freshwater fish pictures worldwide.
It is often found hanging motionless around rocky structures in vallisneria thickets or on the floor of the lake. Nimbochromis venustus commonly called venustus hap or giraffe hap is a haplochromine cichlid endemid to lake malawi in africa. Venustus are omnivores they will accept all foods including pellets flake frozen green vegetable and algae.
The venustus is a good sized cichlid with a stocky elongated body and a large mouth. The nimbochromis venustus or more commonly known as the giraffe hap or venustus cichlid is a species of haplochromis from lake malawi which is native to the deeper rocky regions of lake malawi in africa. This fish has a life span of up to 10 years.
It is different in its habits. They reach up to about 25cm in length and sometimes grow a bit bigger in the aquarium. They reach up to about 10 inches 25 cm in length and sometimes grow a bit bigger in the aquarium.
They use an ambush technique of partially burying themselves in the sand to catch unaware small fish prey as they swim near. Venustus is an ambush predator in nature. This species is fairly common in the hobby due to its colors and ease of keeping.
It is a little difficult to care but this article helps to treat it easily. The venustus is an astonishing fish with various range of blue colors with a combination of other colors. This is a behavioural adaptation known as thanatosis or playing dead.
Anda bisa memelihara venustus cichlid dengan clown loach featherfin catfish cuckoo catfish bristlenose catfish pleco fish ghost knives synodontis catfish dan lainnya. It prefers the deeper regions of the lake 6 to 23 metres 20 to 75 ft where it hunts smaller juvenile cichlids with a specialised hunting technique. Venustus cichlid nimbochromis venustus also known as giraffe cichlid is a popular aquarium cichlid species.
It is a sedentary species and does not move around a lot. The male can range from a solid gold with a blue face or be all blue. Terkadang mereka juga bisa hidup dengan barb cichlid amerika gurami besar belut silver golden perch hiu besar silver dollar dan yabbi.
Not a fish for the general malawi cichlid community n.