The Frontosa Aquarium

This week, I will talk about the Frontosa aquarium.
Learn everything you need to know to give this fascinating fish the perfect home.
0:00 Intro
1:16 What is a Frontosa
2:09 Appearance
4:18 Size
4:33 LifeSpan
4:43 Distribution in the Wild
4:52 Habitat
7:18 Water Parameters
7:47 Diet
8:59 Breeding
11:12 Compatibility/Behavior
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PRODUCTS I RECOMMEND (CANADA & USA)
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FOR WATER CHANGES (CAN)
🍁Python No Spill Kit (for water changes): goo.gl/ZbvsQo
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BEST FISH FOOD (CAN)
🍁Northfin fish food: goo.gl/8xNdbN
USE THESE PRODUCTS FOR CICHLIDS (CAN)
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FOR WATER CHANGES (USA & World)
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🌎Freshwater Test Kit: goo.gl/kcM3c9
USE THESE TO ADJUST YOUR WATER PARAMETERS (USA & World)
🌎Seachem Malawi Buffer: goo.gl/2RZizc
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BEST FISH FOOD (USA & World)
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🌎Northfin Jumbo Formula: goo.gl/crLfjM
MY BOOK REFERENCES (USA & World))
🌎Konings, A., Tanganyika Cichlids in their Natural Habitat: goo.gl/5Sg1qB
🌎Konings, A., Tropheus their Natural Habitat : goo.gl/zj6dpT
🌎Konings, A., Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat: goo.gl/DgQ3Rd
🌎Konings, A., Back To Nature : Malawi Cichlids: goo.gl/FxBXfa
🌎Konings, A., Back To Nature : Tanganyika Cichlids: goo.gl/xyoy5w
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[@DeathMerciless]

my frontosa is 26 years old and still going strong

[@justinrvarga7236]

this is one of the best video' on Frontosa, great upload.

[@scottmellard3298]

You a sweetheart and I can tell how much you love and respect the fish and desire to elevate the general knowledge of African Cichlid hobbyists. Thanks for being you and sharing with us

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :)

[@varunjain9492]

I purchased 4 medium sized frontosas after watching this video....thumbs up for ur knowledge Richelle

[@bornfree3963]

Good information, thanks Richelle!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :D

[@bernandoturner4840]

Such A Beautiful Video.. Keep on Talking Sweet❤️about the Frantosa Fish…🤣

[@uncletatscreativeshack1702]

I absolutely love hearing your accent !! I could watch this video all day, not to mention it’s very informative

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :D Play it on repeat and it will increase my views lol

[@karencobleigh1164]

Thank you. I think you are adorable in your Sharing😁💛🐟🐠💙💛🐟🐠💙🥰

[@shaemas1537]

Thank you💜

[@andrewdee8435]

Such a humble and gorgeous giant. My long term tank along side my Mbuna tank. As always terrific video Rachelle!!!👌

[@JimHanelyfishing]

Richelle. You are always entertaining and so so knowledgeable. One of your best vids yet.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks Jim. :) I'm glad you liked it!

[@bernhardkawell68]

Great tanks and a very nice explanaition on reparing HOB. .you do a lot of work many greetings from germany

[@TLCNICE]

Very helpful. Appreciate u

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks

[@parachuteaquatics7233]

Omg this video was amazing great work

[@vladimirkramarovsky2438]

Thanks for good information !!!!!

[@mohamedaboud659]

Good explain for frontosa queen

[@litoloco4fish]

Who in the hell would give a thumbs down to someone sharing knowledge!!! Great job Richelle

[@QuebecCichlides]

Haters gonna hate! Thank you for your support ♥️

[@davidcarey5428]

Exactly people are ridiculous. It's probably someone that owns one and keeps it in a betta bowl

[@moseskongi4746]

@@QuebecCichlides What is your recipe for frontosa? I simply pan fried mine or well not mine, but my brother's. He went away on a trip and i got hungry.

[@jamesalanwatts133]

@@moseskongi4746 did you make it spicy

[@moseskongi4746]

@@jamesalanwatts133 Not really just a little bit of garlic powder, onion powder, and a lil old bay. I also ate one of his other fishes, I think it's called dovi. Now that was some good eatin. Frontosa taste is more like it ain't bad but noting special. This shit got me kicked out of the house and I was forced to go live with relatives. The only thing I regret is that I didn't get a chance to eat his ball python. I had my eye on that muf cka. Wonder how it wood have tasted. Probably like chicken

[@HassanMohamed-iv5ck]

Love the video , great job 👍

[@africanriftvalleyfish8287]

Excellent information!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 😊

[@CASPAIRO]

Thank you so much... Nice video!!! Regarts from Huancayo in Perú 🌻

[@karencobleigh1164]

I just ordered 3. I plan to keep them in my 125 tank. I'm excited. They will be with my severums 😁💛🐟💙🐠💙

[@Frontosa4life]

I am ALWAYS down to watch a fellow youtubers videos on Frontosa! Tank on!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks for watching :D I'm glad you liked it.

[@KGcichlids]

LOVE IT! great job on representing the one fish that is my favorite :)

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you

[@rdlee67]

Many thanks ..absolutely wonderful information 😊🌸🌼🌹

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 😀

[@AngelosFishTanks]

Great information... I love my front . Thanks for sharing that map pretty neat to see where they come from..

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you. I'm glad you liked it. The internet is full of valuble ressources :)

[@obsessivecichliddisorder7258]

Great vid. "Party pack", too funny.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :)

[@aliai10000]

Thanks .

[@COOPERSCICHILDS]

Excellent job

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :D

[@yannvoa6110]

Excellent! Can't wait to have more Tanganyika videos like this one. I'm huge fan of Tropheus (all kind of) and Neo. Pulcher. Thanx for this brilliant video!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :) I'm definitely going to make another Tropheus video but I don't have many kinds at the moment. I'm going to have to wait for my next big Tropheus shipment for that one to have more footage.

[@yanickvalaydon9155]

Very good informations given👌😉

[@papadoubles4615]

Thank you for taking the time to create this video

[@QuebecCichlides]

You're welcome. I'm glad you liked it

[@DowntheWormHole]

so much info! wonderful shop

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you

[@Elsuper68]

Great explanation. I have 5" frontosa but 3 in one 55 gallons and 2 in the other 55 gallons. Hopefully they will grow and do well .

[@joseperez1525]

They are going to need a bigger tank like she said 125 or bigger I got mine in a 180 and worry when they get bigger I might need a bigger one eventually

[@jdeschryver]

Merci pour toutes ces informations. Super utile.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Ça fait plaisir. Je suis contente que vous ayez aimé :)

[@RJVortex]

Great knowledge me too love Frontosas. Rachelle. :)

[@siddharthmalpekar]

One of the best informative frontosa vid i have ever come across. Really nice info. Though i am into fronts hobby almost since last two years...i felt this vid very informative.. plz do post your zaire blues breeding colony vid of longer duration !

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you. Noted about my colony. I'll put more fishy footage in my future vids ;)

[@passenger3]

Richelle your awsome fish keeper and your information on cyphotilapia is absolutely RIGHT 👍👌👌 GOOD JOB MY FRIEND!!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 😊

[@passenger3]

Ide love a quick update on the cyphotilapia if you still have them 😍😉👍

[@bufalo9845]

Thanks , the best info. video about frontosa. Can you talk about the seven stripes, I have one and can't identify .

[@gabri3l_c.111]

My favorite video of yours! Lots of quality information. #Frontosa4theWin

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you. Frontosa rock!

[@nwyk153]

I love how she pronounce those scientific names!

[@adamc7918]

thanks for sharing

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :)

[@litoloco4fish]

Great humor

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you again 😊

[@sanjoydutta5593]

Nyc...👌

[@Cichlids23]

very nice

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks

[@litoloco4fish]

Great video

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 😊

[@pezpythons1532]

I've been using Hornwort and giant Vallisneria in my african cichlid tanks, no problems so far!

[@sureshrooplal3166]

i wish to visit ur shop some day nice fish and info

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks for your comment Suresh. If ever you're in Montreal, you should come by :)

[@heriprasetiyo2605]

Ikan yang indah

[@QuebecCichlides]

Terima kasih (Thank you) :)

[@JustMyFish]

Great info love them. Been away for some time but I am Back now. I have a surprise video coming soon.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you. Welcome back :D I checked out your surprise video. You must be so happy. You are going to be enjoying those fish for a long time!

[@JustMyFish]

@@QuebecCichlides yep they was worth the long trip. I always wanted some frontosa but couldn't find any till now.

[@mukeshs3911]

Thank you for important

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks for watching :D

[@litoloco4fish]

By the way great job!!!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 😊

[@balakrishnanaraj6658]

Love u all

[@jimbeam4140]

I love Montreal. Best city in the world.

[@rinku533]

U r looking beautiful 👌👌👌Beautiful shop too.👍

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you :)

[@matthewmoorecichlids2323]

Love them! I love the Red “copper band”!

[@QuebecCichlides]

I just got my first copper bands this past month. I'm loving them too :)

Great job on your vids and u r beautiful and knowledgable

[@dharmeshgadhiya1977]

Superr

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you!

[@MartinSoulreader]

Would be nice to have the fish in the background whilst your speaking so lovely about them

[@janek6401]

hello .. may I ask what kind of granules do you use to feed frontos? Thank you.

[@alexspoficial788]

👍

[@williamblansett5786]

I wish I could afford to do this but I'm curious about your thought on the subject and maybe there are some aquarist who can afford theis who would want to know. Even though this fish is from Lake Malawi and the water parameters are different, what are your thoughts about keeping a small school of Blue Dolphin fish, Cyrtocara moori with a colony of Frontosa?

[@taryndeclyn1474]

I’m considering setting up a huge Frontosa Aquarium. The tank will be 650 gallons. What do you think would be the deal number long-term Santosa for a tank that has it 8’ x 3’ footprint and is 44 inches tall?

[@walterslinger5911]

Hi ...great video ....I have frontosas mixed with Mona angels ,for two years ...I haven't have no problems to date ,can this be a problem, due to frontosas grow 20cm+ Thanks

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Walter. There are a lot of chances that you will have problems in the future. Both fish live in different water parameters. If you favor one, the others will be less healthy. ... and the fact that frontosa can grow up to 14" too can cause a problem😜

[@gasp5027]

Frontosas like width, length and height. since theyre open water and rock dwellers. So they def need a big aquarium

[@vahiddi3124]

Hi, I make new 92 us gal. Tank for my frontosa, after 4 days my tank has bad smell like swamp, and i dont no what to do for get rid out this bad smell, i use 2 ehiem clasic 600, and these media seachem purigen, matrix, block an ehiem ceramics and porous and their canister pads in each one. Also i use of seachem prime, stability and pristine. I'm new fish keeper and i need help to remove this bad smell from my aquarium.

[@jpgmmg09]

Can and should you mix south and North frontosa? I have 5 small kigoma . But I'd like to add some mpimbwe. I have a 300 gallon aquarium.

[@kbeesmot9928]

Of course you can you gibbon FKTS MOT ALAW WACCOE JIMMY 2 TIMES 2 TIMES bums TIMMY MUMP

[@SureshKumar-ey3tj]

Wt is the feeding time of adult size frantosas.

[@RLMUD]

how many fronts can i put in a 265 gallon tank? this will be there forever home. im hoping 12

[@danialqanooq7645]

Mwaahhhh 4 u 👍

[@toddwall1710]

Interesting choice of ear rings

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thank you 🌀

[@toddwall1710]

@@QuebecCichlides Do you ship to The USA if so could you send me a price list For Blue Zaire Frontosa

[@toddwall1710]

How can I contact, if you do

[@QuebecCichlides]

Unfortunately I only ship to Canada. Thank you for your interest 🥰

[@toddwall1710]

@@QuebecCichlides No problem, can’t find them locally. Love your videos- peace out ✌🏻

[@WilliamSmith-dg5re]

Hi Richelle, I just bought a 600 gallon tank. It measures 8 feet long 4 feet deep and 36 inches wide. It will be filtered with 4 FX6 canisters. My question is how many fronts will work in this tank. Male and female ratio and total number of fish. Thanks

[@johnatella8498]

I have a 125 with a colony of 7: three males and four females. The dominant male has two males to pick on so neither gets that much attention. The females are also a good distraction. In a 600 gallon tank with those ratios, I would stay with the 3 males but add 3-4 more females. I will say, if you have caves, they will hide and it will still look like you have just 3-4 fish. Try to buy your frontosas at different places as a way to increase your genetic diversity; otherwise, your fish might all come from one spawn and pass genetic issues to their fry.

[@kennethsanchez1881]

Im actually planning to buy my first frotosa, but is it okay if the fish is alone on its aquarium? Looking forward to your response.

[@tracywaldrop2803]

She recommended group of 5

[@paradeal]

😘

[@aliai10000]

Which foods will this fish eat??

[@QuebecCichlides]

It's in the video 😉

[@aliai10000]

@@QuebecCichlides yes thanks sew till the end nice videos keep up the good work.👍

[@joshs_random_location]

I understand colony fish, I have one juvenile in my 6foot community tank along with angelfish, silver shark, tiger barbs, Bristlenose, Female Betta and other small assorted fish. Going great!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Oh boy. I hope you don't mean a juvenile frontosa. If you do, good luck with your tank ;)

[@joshs_random_location]

I very much understand my mix of fish, but it's going well. No 2 fish no 2 aquariums are the same. I'm from Australia!

[@QuebecCichlides]

I'm happy for you that it's going well for but keep in mind that it might not stay that way forever. The frontosa will get big and will rampage on your fish(hopefully it won't die young because of the inadequate water parameters.) No 2 aquariums are alike but a frontosa is a frontosa, whether you're in Australia or the north pole 😉

[@kareldelvaux264]

I have one question, how many Cyphotilapia Frontosa can i put togheter in a 165,108 gallon aquarium? You said 125 gallon or more. Do you mean 125 gallon or more for 5 or 6 or is it not enough ? Sorry my english 😓

[@johnatella8498]

7 in a 165: 3 males and the rest females. That is if you buy them at an age where you can tell their gender. I would do that rather than buy cheaper fry. They take forever to mature.

[@lakemalawifishkeeping2599]

Can you please tell me the name of one sometimes caller the miniature frontosa

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi there. You're talking about the Neolamprologus tretocephalus

[@sainkykumar1275]

How can we differentiate between male and female frontosa when there size are about 4-5cm?

[@QuebecCichlides]

You can't ;-)

[@gaiaaquaticpets904]

Can calvus be added to the frontosa tank?

[@davec1294]

Sure I have some together and have no problems.

[@garciaisabella1981]

Do you know why female frontosa tumble air bubbles almost as faking that she is holding? Thank you!

[@QuebecCichlides]

No idea. 😅

[@vivienleigh4640]

I didn't know I wanted Frontosas. Now I do (and yes, the aquarium will be big enough - 190 Gallons).

[@QuebecCichlides]

190 gal? Well...now you HAVE TO get frontosa 🤗

[@brianbestakaholytreehugger2321]

Great vid! I had to subscribe after seeing this.. Montreal, wow! I got vague memories ( b4 your time ) of expo '67 - I was visiting as a young navigation apprentice on a Blue Star ship.. happy memories.. So, I have a single Frontosa, which wifie bought about 4 yrs back - ashamed to say he / she was sadly neglected, and a miracle he survived - now named 'StripeyJoe' and re-housed in a 90gall tank, along wi' total 15 various peacocks and haps, including 3 Yellow Labs, and a decent-sized bristlenose plec - ev'body seem to be happy enough.. My questions: how do I 'sex' StripeyJoe ?.. and if a male, cud I put, say, 3 females with him in this tank - knowing it's sorta long-term for breeding - but wud the females be OK wi' the other cichis?.. thks..

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Brian. Welcome to the channel. Many of the pavilions from the expo are still up and running. One of them even became a casino (I think it was the French one). For Stripey Joe, males would have a gigantic hump, whereas females have smaller ones. Males also have long "flowy" fins. You can also vent the fish. Check out my video about sexing African cichlids. Venting is presented at 4:53 kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3yaoqCkZrN_nKM So, is Stripey Joe male of female?

[@Ali-Muscle]

Will a 120 gallon aquarium be large enough for four adult Frontosa ?

[@Tusar47]

I keep a pair of blue frontosa in a 5-foot long tank with buch of peacocks and couple of yellow labs, demasoni and auratus. the frontosa pair is 3+ years old and 13 and 9 inches and yes you can only it's a species only tank meaning you can keep nothing but only 4 frontosa fish unleass you have a 125 gallon or more (6 foot - 8 foot long) tank

[@Ali-Muscle]

good kush thankyou for the reply!! I appreciate that !

[@FADE2BLACK731]

125 gal would even better. You could go with a male and afew female. I knew a guy from a front forum that bred a male with about 5 females in a 125.

[@NaveenKumarKotni]

Nice voice

[@bufalo9845]

I have a 7 stripe one , what is the scientific name, thanks for share your Knowledges.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi there. The 7 stripe ones are the official frontosa :D Cyphotilapia frontosa The 6 stripe ones are Cyphotilapia gibberosa

[@jonasbaptista4557]

Boa tarde vc envia peixes para o Brasil

[@syazwan2025]

Can i feed mysis shrimp for frontosa every day?

[@QuebecCichlides]

I wouldn't use them as a staple. I would feel it 2 - 3 times a week tops

[@AngieDhkymom]

Lady, your not the only company who has many multiple colonies on hand for sale.

[@QuebecCichlides]

In Quebec I am 😉 It's a pretty small market here.

[@acuariosciclidosclose]

Hello!!! I can not read in Spanish the argumentation of this video, it only gives me the option to read in English and the truth is that I do not know ... a pity! Will it be because I see the video through the mobile? A greeting from Spain .

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi there, I don't know about the phone but this is how to check it on the computer. Put the subtitles on Click the gear (next to the subtitles button) Click on Subtitles (they'll be in english by default) Click on Automatically Translate Select your language. Google will automatically translate the subtitles to spanish. Of course it won't be 100% but it's a start. Since I added a subtitle track (with the right words), it should be easier to comprehend than the videos that have an automatically generated track. Enjoy!

[@liln.o.thedon25]

I have a bumblebee cichlid do a video on them for me please

[@QuebecCichlides]

Noted! They are one of the most interesting Mbunas🤓🐟

[@ameypadave1439]

That was very useful information Richelle. I am big fan of cichlid fish specially frontosa, i have kept most of the variety in my tank. I have a lot of questions to ask, could you please help with your mail id so that i can discuss the concerns. Thanks & appreciated the info.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Amey. Thanks for your message. I don't have a consultation service set up yet. If you can't make it to my store, check out all my other videos, especially in the "fish keeping 101" playlist. This should help you with most questiont

[@aquatic-lady65]

QuebecCichlides where are you, no new videos for a while :(, I hope you are doing okay.

[@QuebecCichlides]

Just put a new one up 😊 I’ve been busy

[@joshuawesolowski]

I have 3 frontosas and I recently upgraded their aquarium and it’s been about a month and 1 of the 3 frontosas haven’t ate since any suggestions what i should do?

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Joshua, That's definitely something you're going to have to act fast about and find out what's stressing your fish out. Check your water parameters to make sure that the tank is adapted to them. : kzbin.info/www/bejne/mXTEeXuQab91g6M Make sure that your tank is well cycled as well : kzbin.info/www/bejne/f4LSkpWqatOGoK8 What can also stress them out is aggressive fish or that the tank is too small. Good luck!

[@lakemalawifishkeeping2599]

Do u ship them I live in Lancaster PA 17602

[@QuebecCichlides]

Thanks for your message. I can't ship to the USA yet.

[@bean8092]

Can I send u a pic of my frontosa he is huge and beautiful and I wanna know exactly what he is

[@omarvela6829]

Hello, I want frontosas, but ... I live in Chihuahua Mexico, I need to change city : (

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Omar. I hope one day you're able to get your tank just how you want it.

[@SaniruMudalige]

Can you use the common name for other fish too... more than the scientific one...

[@litoloco4fish]

My story doesn’t end well unfortunately these horrible things happen. Never again but it happened with my gorgeous frontosa colony. I had these fish guys for many years and grew attached like I do to all my fish. I just put a new heater in my tank ( eheim jager) a week prior and all seemed good and when I went to work all was good according to my digital thermometer.. when I get home first thing I do When I walk in is check on my tanks. When I looked at my frontosa colonies tank I saw The digital thermometer say 101°F the heater stuck on in the boil my fish. I had one survivor he was 12 inches long beautiful male!!!! I was in shock and so sad then came anger because I bought this heater thinking they were great quality turns out I found out they all fail anyway. As of now all my aquariums including my reef has the heater that comes with the thermostat controller. This happened many years ago but it was a lesson and hard learned and the cost the life of my beautiful fish. I’ve had these heater stick and heard of friends who’ve had this heater stick and kill all the fish mini mini times since that happened to me so beware. Well I’m sorry my story was so down but to tell you I had many beautiful years with those fish watching them grow and watching how they exist watching how they set the pecking order who is the dominant male so on and so forth. Frontosas are very very beautiful!!!! The offspring that they gave me I have friends still have those fish to this day and agrees me great pleasure to watch them in a good home knowing they came from me and my frontosa colony!!!!

[@QuebecCichlides]

Hi Lito. I'm so sorry to read this story. We work so hard to give our fish a good home, it's horrible to have their little lives end that way. I'm glad you were able to "get back on the horse" and that your prize male was able to make many babies. Thank you for sharing❤️️

[@jamesfalci9372]

those heaters are the worst

[@RLMUD]

I have read that bloodworms give fronts inflamed bowels, is there truth to this??? Please get back to me on this one.

[@markcopley7366]

Mmmmmm Rochelle

[@badalhaha1862]

They live in Salt water or normal water?

[@QuebecCichlides]

Freshwater 😁