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Trematocranus placodon is mainly living in shallow water, in sandy environments with a lot of vegetation and they can be found all around Lake malawi. These examples were caught in the neighbourhood of Makokola Reef, in the southern part of the lake. In the lake the males of these species can grow to 23 cm, in the aquarium however they can grow a little taller because of a good feeding. The males can then grow to about 25 cm, females grow to about 20 cm. Trematocranus placodon is a species which - in the lake - is searching the sand for food. Mainly it is feeding itself with small snails. You can best keep this species with multiple females and other big species in a large tank with a lot of swimming space. We are dealing here with a species which likes eating snails, so we'll regularly have to offer him such kind of food like living small snails, mysis, krill,artemia, shrimpmix etc. 
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