Great video! Lots of valuable information. We have 5 frontosas, all over 2 years old and we love them. They are part of our family. Keep up the good work!!

Wow great video really enjoyed it, I got 10 wild caught Zaire blue moba’s 11 months ago there were around 1.5” - 2” there all around the 5” - 7” mark now, they live in a 1500 litre tank with about 20 clown loach and numerous l number plecos, they seem to coexist very very well as the tank is very chilled with no aggression from no one, I feed them NLS probiotixs as a stable, and chopped prawn a mussel for a treat, I watched your video for the breeding information, looks like I’ll be waiting for around another 2 years yet, never mind there worth the wait, it’s the first time I’ve ever kept frontosa, and there really great fish, I now understand why everyone loves them.

By area, Lake Victoria is much bigger than Lake Tanganyka, however by water volume you're right. Tanganyka is bigger. Honestly though, this video is incredibly informative (one of the most Informative I have seen on youtube) and I'm a cichlid breeder and watch a lot of youtube fish videos. This just became one of my "must watch" channels. You and your wife seem like a nice couple too which is an added bonus. Keep up the good work.

Thank you this is the most informative video I’ve found so far on n Frontosas

Nice species profile John. My favorite no doubt. I see you found a nice clip of Gill. Definitely some good info. Wish you would have discussed/showed the difference between the groups ie: Kigoma, Burundi, Zaire. I get asked that one a lot and with your audience it would have reached more people. Maybe on another episode.

@FishGuyDudeBroski

6 жыл бұрын

MrHoney2U you have a beautiful frontosa tank I keep my own front he is still EXTREMELY small and he is in a 20 gallon

Good info and video John on a great fish ! 😀

great info! thanks for the video!

a guy whk owns a small aquarium shop here in WA has a 17" frontosa and its amazing!

Now john that is what i'm talking about.....awesome video!

Do species profiles of malawi eye biter, livingstonii , blue dolphin etc

Hi John I love my fronnies thanks

love your channel please add more species profile.. there are so many african cichlids and so little information about a lot. would really be interesting ..thanks

Nice species profile got to love Frontas mine are are gentle giants.

Frontosa tip never feed floating pellets

Thanks John. How many should i start for my 125g? I was thinking 6. Just as you said, a lot of conflicting info about them out there

I have a 140 gal with an oscar, flagtail prochilodus, and a frontosa. Abd they get along great and are all happy

I actually keep my red devil with peacock haps and mbuna and Oscar. All together they seem to get along fine. Had them together in my 125 for about a year now. No dead fish yet. Fingers crossed 🤞

@City_Cichlids

2 жыл бұрын

I have the same. No red Devil but a Blood Parrot

I love Gibberosa! Hey, is that Tobias at 2 minutes?

Thanks for the informative video! Everyone keeps saying "species only" for Fronts! I want mostly Frint and a few other Tangs! P.S I love to 1990's sitcom intro! Lol

Dude... That was a great video.

dude your simply awesome...... n specially your cichlids.... love em all ...

My frontosa and I survived 2020! 👍💕🎉🎉🎉

Great video.. I can see the fish you're talking about , only a tiny suggestion, more video of smaller size and maybe the breeding But that's just being picky

Great video on a cool fish. When do we get another Podcast?

Nice vid bro:))

Can’t wait till your on sunday

Oh yeah. I love your videos. I have also ordered breeding groups from you. But most of the fish on your website are out of stock

Great vid I have 2 Frontosa about 3 inches each, great fish very gentle too. my question ...do you fast your cichlids at least once a week? is it necessary.

Im new in this type of fish but love it.I want to set a 125 gallons tank with Frontosa , where you recommend to buy, and how many to start, what sustrat is good , thanks

Yay I have exactly 75 gallon!

I had one with my Oscar got them both as babies Oscar grew so fast but they loved each other

My frontosa started breeding the male was around 5in. And the female is 3.5 to 4 in. I get a small litter of 5 to 7 fry every 3 weeks

I just got 2 of these at my local aquarium store, the guy running it sells it for 1 dollar basically

Do a video on Butterkoferi if possible please & thanks!!

Ik this video is old but I went to an imports store and the guy helping me out just refused to sell me a frontossa only because I’m 21 and basically made me feel like I didn’t know anything even tho I’ve had African cichlids for almost 2 years now successfully. I went another day and still got that frontossa. Had to, it’s my moms favorite

I’m excited I just ordered 4 malawi trouts, a frontosa, taeniolethrinops praeorbitalis, and a champsochromis caeruleus .. already have a pleco and 3 decent size clown loaches holding down the fortress for the real kings to arrive 😅🤷🏼‍♂️🐠🐟🙏🏼👀🤭👑👑

@nolimit_5418

5 жыл бұрын

Edit; ordered them all at 2”s so they can grow up with eachother and hopefully be good friends I need a buddy for the frontosa if he’s an ass hole I’ll get ride of him sadly lol

2020 represent

@JumpyMarly

2 жыл бұрын

2021 bro

@nickzinne7103

2 жыл бұрын

2022 represent

I have burundi and samaze fronts in with bulu point and kaiser trophs, Black calvus, lelupi, and Telmatochromis temporalis shell. I went for a tang tank only for the beauty and the tang species.look. Their grow out tank is a 60 gal as they are all at 2 to 4 inch now, 2 being the lelupi. The trophs are at 3 inch. The fronts will eventually go in the 180 gal when they are big enough to survive with my monsters in there. My tap water PH is 7.8 to 7.9 depending on the season. I feed all 35 tanks Xtreme cichlid pellets, all 3 sizes, or flakes because i can get it in bulk reasonably.

I believe that the reason frontosa dont go well with Malawis is because the Malawis stress them because they swim with great speed around them. Frontosa are deep down in the lake where there is much less movement. In my experience they do fine in a tank that has plenty of space and large rocks.

@KGTropicals great video thanks mate . The Moba or kitumba?? At the start of the video looks like he has a dislocated jaw , sorry to be negative it's just hard for me to ignore . Thanks again for the videos I wish I had this info when I started keeping frontosa about 10 yrs ago .

we have a 75g that we have had for some time. In it are two Frontosa, as well as some other fish. The original Frontosa ( Frank ) has been around a number of years. Louise joined some time after that. Well, Louise is now about 7-8 inches, and Frank is still only about 4 inches. Frank also does not show himself that often. Louise rules the tank. Thus, I am thinking Frank is Louise and Louise may be Frank. 4 Frys just showed up after two years

@camski13

Жыл бұрын

how long did 2 work in the 75 with other fish I have a similar set up just with one front and some other fish want another front but don’t know if I’ll need to upgrade to quick

Do a video on flower horns 👍

Thanks

I’d like your opinion: do you think a 120 gallon 5 foot tank is sufficient for a small group of fronts? Like 1 male, 3 female?

I have 7 6 strips frontdosa in 220 gallon, and 1 in a 120 gallon with yellow labs, and I have 2 more 220 gallons with 1 black widow in each, can I combine all of the frontdosas?

I like the black widows!

@KGcichlids

6 жыл бұрын

I like pure strains!

A frontosa tank wud b a great project 2 set up 4 u John

So I know this is an old video, but I have a new 75 gallon tank with 10 peacocks in it. The peacocks are about two inches now, and I’d love to have a frontosa . If I buy a larger front, or raise one in a separate tank would the other cichlids destroy it when I put it in with them (I’m willing to wait until it’s larger than they are).

I subscribed to you!

Would they get bloated because of the floating pellets?

I really want one, will I have a 55g with 10 mbuna and a albino bristlenose, do u guys think I'll be able to get away with keeping one?

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

They can hold up to 6 weeks?! That I didn't know.

Lol no fish sticks... Love it

Livingstonii please!!

I have seen on more then one site that feeding fronts bloodworms can cause them to get inflamed bowels. What is your take on this????

@Kashif314

4 жыл бұрын

I am not expert but yes bloodworms can cause bloating and other bowel issues. Its best to feed all cichlids the food made for them from reputable manufacturers like hikari

On 2.20- Tobias Schmidt?)

Hey I was wondering if I could keep mbuna (yellow lab, m. auratus, p. acei with frontosas

@frankieruano3694

7 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't put any kind of mbunas with Frontosa's . auratus are very aggressive and will kill them eventually

Looks like I found the perfect fish for me that doesn't spawn fast😂

How many can be safely kept in a 75 gallon tank? How long before they outgrow it? Can they be kept with a Rhino plecostomus?

I love my mobas:)

Which Frontosa’s are the brightest blue?

Hi John. Where is the podcast facility on the new website? I can't find the facility to listen to it on the new website.

@KGTropicals

9 жыл бұрын

Robert McGowan We're having some difficulties with the website at the moment, if you head to tanktalk.libsyn.com you'll find all of the episodes:-)

@robertmcgowan2560

9 жыл бұрын

Ok thanks :-)

I apologize about asking this here but I simply cannot find an answer. I have a 10gal tank with a sand substrate. I'd like to add plants and start learning how to aquascape. Do I need to add plant substrate and could I just mix the two? I'd appreciate any other tips you have. I have two ghost shrimp, an albino cory cat and five zebra danios. Again, I'm sorry about asking here but I can't find an answer. Thanks!

@ChaosGeneral1

9 жыл бұрын

I have all my planted tanks with just sand as the substrate so no need to add planted substrate if your tank has been up and going

American veija would it be a good tank mate

I was wondering How many Frontosa to peacocks and haps in a 75 gallon?

I have a question I have 2 Doviis, 1 jaguar, and 1 green terror. Do you guys think I will have to split them up by the team they get older?

@jaberwilson4521

5 жыл бұрын

As long ur fish have their own spot in the tank.

can you have frontosas with mbuna? or zebra ciclids?

@joelsmith9141

9 жыл бұрын

Neptunodestroyer I did for several years and had no problem

i have problem on my mixed tank when the peacocks are just finished all the food before my frontosas even able to eat, how to deal with this problem?

@DanielSanchez-nu3xp

4 жыл бұрын

If your feeding pellets make sure they're sinking pellets or there are videos out there on how to make homemade food with few ingredients to make food sink

@icangicung20

4 жыл бұрын

@@DanielSanchez-nu3xp my fish are already dead 👍

Can u sell them if they get to big for your tank since there more looked for in a bigger size ?

@saltyryan8280

4 жыл бұрын

Cant*

My local fish store sells them for $10 at 2 inches

@mavericklofquist2787

6 жыл бұрын

kiwibaitnz really? My local fish store sells them at 2 inches for 4.99 or cheaper

@KGcichlids

6 жыл бұрын

what variant? because I guarantee its more than likely a Burundi at that price

@stetson3728

6 жыл бұрын

Thats a really good deal at my store its $20 dollers for a 1inch one

@BC-fh3jt

5 жыл бұрын

Probably Burundi's price; even the Zaire Blue CB is not cheap

I have two Frontosas !

@samnella9

9 жыл бұрын

What type?

@luvmywetpets

9 жыл бұрын

I m not sure take a look at my videos maybe you could tell me? I d like to know too.

Can I kept this with a blue dolphin cichlid

will they coexist with severums and acaras?

@KGcichlids

6 жыл бұрын

sometimes

@JasPlun

6 жыл бұрын

I have a school of fully grown large Albino and Green Tiger Barbs in with my Frontosa, an Electric Blue Acara and one Electric Blue Jack Dempsey. The Frontosa completely ignore the Barbs which give the best schooling action which I wanted to the tank. Every now and then they will run the Acara out of a good cave spot is all I have ever seen them do. The EBJD pretty much keeps to himself as well except every now and then having to run someone off that got to close to his cave:P Love your videos KG and recently am treating my other EBJD for an internal parasite the way you showed in one of your videos with some success thx for doing all of this:P

wheres lisa? we need more vids from lisa

Thank u very much for great info. Could u please explain all different type of Frontosa, like which is better n beautiful than other,specially for breeding. Thanks in advance,

How many can you keep in a 120

@jacobvideos430

8 жыл бұрын

5

They can jump really high beware when cleaning

is 6.5 alright? 😆😆

5 to 7 inches to breed,

More people watch my other videos instead of my videos on my Frontosas. I am a breeder of the Burundi Frontosas and hope this video will spark more interest in the Frontosa Cichlids!

@AquaLady153

9 жыл бұрын

I first thought all fronts were the same. Lmao. If I had a bigger tank, I'd get some off ya.

@RickyKenerlyCichlids

9 жыл бұрын

I am going to research shipping soon! Maybe by the time I figure everything out I will be able to send you some!

@RickyKenerlyCichlids

9 жыл бұрын

You are one of my biggest Frontosa Fans! I think BIG SLICE CICHILDS BX and dogglet1234 are my runner ups!

@dogglet1234

9 жыл бұрын

Ricky is the boss of frontosa..he should be releasing this vid

@bigslicebx4881

9 жыл бұрын

TY RICKY,, I REALLY DO ENJOY WATCH ALL UR VIDEO'S BUT DEM FRONTOSA VIDEO'S, , NOW U ALREADY NOE MY FRONTOSA BROTHER,, AGAIN I LIKE MY AFRICAN CICHLIDS,, BUT LOVING MY FRONTS THANKX 2 U 4 REALLY OPENING UP MY EYES WIT DEM FRONTOSAS, ,,

How many in a 75 gallon tho? Nice video!

@DelusionME

4 жыл бұрын

Micarmn probably 1, I keep my big frontosa in a 106 gallon Aquariam.

Do you guys sell fish ?

wishlist= frontosa lol

did my homework on frontosas before getting one.. no matter what I do I can't keep one alive for more than 24hrs... my water parameters were spot on.. what could the problem be????????

@1deaver

8 жыл бұрын

you need to seek out ricky who breeds tons of frontosas, sub him. he will answer all your questions.

@1deaver

8 жыл бұрын

+1deaver ricky kenerly cichlids

Can they live with Asian arowana

lake victoria is the largest FYI

I keep mine in 7,2ph and they breed.

Can someone explain to me how so many people keep these with South Americans

Frontosas are common but the electric yellows are WAY too common

I have 55g with 8 frontosas they're fine.

@DelusionME

4 жыл бұрын

ELCARLOS H you should defiantly upgrade soon after they reach 6 inches. At least a 105+ gallon wide Aquariam

I have clown loaches and a plako and a ink fin call he's with my 8 frantosas

Can a frontosa live in brackish water???

@daniellepare2939

7 жыл бұрын

I'm wondering cause I have Africa cichlids and their bigger or can I just put them in the 10 gallon only 2 now but sense growing slowly don't want them killed by others

@iamlegend712

7 жыл бұрын

Danielle Cloutier I wouldn't keep them in a 10 gallon. That would only slow their growing even more and they would be very unhappy. A 10 gallon tank is very unstable chemistry wise. They come from big lakes, which have stable water conditions. If you keep them in there, be prepared to risk your money.

I have three frontosa in a 55gallon there stil only one inch each will I have to up grade later still

Can these fish be in the same tank with an Oscar?

@RajSingh-jl7zr

8 жыл бұрын

NO! ! NEVER

@randomrg4637

8 жыл бұрын

mine are coexisting perfectly

@RajSingh-jl7zr

8 жыл бұрын

+King Dizzy trust me bro these are really slow growers unless you get an adult an Oscar will quickly outgrow it and will enjoy a delicious expensive meal Damn it....Oscars are too aggressive got these frontosa

@frankieruano3694

7 жыл бұрын

that answer is NO!! Oscar's will not be a good tank mate at all. I had one with my frontosa's and they locked lips a lot to a point where the Oscar was beat my frontosa's up so that's how I know.

@randomrg4637

7 жыл бұрын

Raj Singh​ they are both full grown adults

🇲🇿🇲🇿🇲🇿 obrigado

can we keep them with oscar fish ?

Mine are kept in acidic water with Indian almond leaves added

I couldn’t disagree with you more when it comes to putting these guys with peacocks and haps. These are a much slower, much calmer fish with a much slower water flow requirmemt. A frontosa may survive In a Malawi tank, but will not thrive well, resulting in stress and a shorter life span then if you kept them as they should be..... but hey these are just fish we’re talking about here (sarcastically speaking)

Sir frontosa fish stay with green terror, firemouth and sevram fish

@unsaltedsalt8208

8 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't recommend it

@whydoineedahandle269

7 жыл бұрын

That's not a great idea although realistically it might work. You would be mixing fish from different parts of the world. Your current fish are from South America BTW