Frontosa Cichlid

Frontosa Cichlid

The Frontosa Cichlid lives twenty five years and grows to about one foot. These are splendid cichlids and males grow a distinctive hump on their head. In fact the word frontosa is Latin for “big forehead”. These fish are appropriate for a large species community or cichlid tank. Since they are difficult to breed and grow slowly like most Tanganyikans, they are a bit more expensive than their Lake Malawi cousins. There are several variants available of the Frontosa cichlid, the most common, though still exceptional, is the 6-stripe Burundi Frontosa, pictured here. For simply “frontosa” we carry six band burundi and seven band, both are the same species but have a slight variation in color (burundi are a bit deeper black).

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