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If I understand correctly this is a fish from lake tang? I watched a video of a pair fending off a turtle and was in awe. I have a few questions. Is this a species available to the public? (I was unable to find any for sale online) My next question is, what would be the minimum tank size to keep a pair in alone together? While I know for sure that it is beyond anything I could attempt in the near future (LOL) I would love to keep a breeding pair of these awesome fish eventually. I am hoping to be getting a 180 or 200 gallon tank soon, but have a sneaking suspicion that this would be too small! :eek: Thanks in advance for your answers and please refrain from the "You're an idiot!" posts. I allready know that. :D
 
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KitumbaKing said:
I would love to one day to have the space to accommodate a large tank like others have suggested. It's going to be awhile, might as well start planting the seed with my wife....

I have two groups of kitumba Frontosa it would be great to put them in one giant aquarium with some of these monsters.
You don't really want to keep frontosa with them, unless the tank is ridiculously big. By that, I mean something that is probably in the neighbourhood of 10ft x 10 ft x 4ft or bigger.
 
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Fogelhund said:
KitumbaKing said:
I would love to one day to have the space to accommodate a large tank like others have suggested. It's going to be awhile, might as well start planting the seed with my wife....

I have two groups of kitumba Frontosa it would be great to put them in one giant aquarium with some of these monsters.
You don't really want to keep frontosa with them, unless the tank is ridiculously big. By that, I mean something that is probably in the neighbourhood of 10ft x 10 ft x 4ft or bigger.
Yeah, it would be a monster tank like in the video that was posted. We can all dream right. Realistically a 10ft x 2ft x 2ft is more attainable, and I would likely do Benthochromis instead.
 
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