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Nimbochromis venustus is living in reasonable deep water in sandy environments with some spread boulders or vegetation and they can be found all around the lake. The examples shown here were caught in the neighbourhood of Mbamba Bay in the Tanzanian part of the lake. In the lake the males of these species can grow to 20 cm, in the aquarium however they can grow taller because of a good feeding. Then the males can grow to about 25 cm, females grow to about 20 cm. Nimbochromis venustus is a real predator. Young fish belong to his favourite meal. You can best keep this species with multiple females and other big species in a large tank. We are dealing here with a species which likes eating fish, so we'll regularly have to offer him such kind of food like living small fish, mysis, krill, artemia, shrimpmix and they eat a lot of young fish when we keep them with mbuna. 
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