EMERALD PRACHT BASS
This attractive Zwergcichlide has - in various local color forms - his home in forest streams and rivers of Nigeria and Cameroon, where the form shown here comes from western Cameroon in the area around the village Moliwe. The streams of this region lead soft water with a pH close to neutral (pH 7). In the aquarium, you should take this into consideration. The device bearing plants, many hiding places and caves that can be built with wood and stone, is necessary for a permanent care. The substrate should best consist of fine sand. When food is accepted even after settling flake food, better, but it is varied to feed with Frost and mainly live food. Like the other P. taeniatus color forms part of this form to the cavity-nesting birds, which initially assume the females the brunt of parental care, while the males take care of the security of territorial boundaries. After the free-swimming the boys also the male involved more actively in the care. The nutrition and rearing designed at optimal water care and feeding of fine live food as easily.