What is this guy?

[danotaylor]

I kept my Mikula frontosa in the predator hap & peacock tank shown in the attached video. You will notice the Malawi fish all jostling around continually, but taking zero interest in the Mikula. He’s just cuzin around like there’s no one else there. He is about 10” in this vid a little over a year ago, but I grew him from 1.5” over the last 4 years. He would be better with the haps but not necessarily unless your water parameters are different in the hap tank, or the JD’s start to bully her.
Give it as much tank space as you can. Keep your water clean and fed your new friend well with a high quality carnivore pellets and she’ll do great!

 

[Americancichlidsaredabest]

I kept my Mikula frontosa in the predator hap & peacock tank shown in the attached video. You will notice the Malawi fish all jostling around continually, but taking zero interest in the Mikula. He’s just cuzin around like there’s no one else there. He is about 10” in this vid a little over a year ago, but I grew him from 1.5” over the last 4 years. He would be better with the haps but not necessarily unless your water parameters are different in the hap tank, or the JD’s start to bully her.
Give it as much tank space as you can. Keep your water clean and fed your new friend well with a high quality carnivore pellets and she’ll do great!

Thank you! That’s an awesome predator hap tank. I think I’ll give it a try for a little bit and see if it works out. He’s just chillin on his side of the tank for the most part unbothered. It ate a few pellets yesterday so hopefully he’ll fatten up soon. I’ll take some more pics and post them.

 

[Americancichlidsaredabest]

Does your frontosa like to dig? Mine has decided to stick to a corner and has dug himself a nice little hole. Is that common or normal?

 

[danotaylor]

My guy sifts the substrate now and then and digs occasionally. Usually to create more space in a cave or something. Pretty common behavior