Buffalo Head Cichlid (Steatocranus casuarius) – The ... | 水產百科網

2018年6月30日—Withthisregimen,anunderpopulatedtank,weeklytwentypercentwaterchanges​,andafewmonthstime,twoofthefishdoubledinsizetoover ...

The “bumphead,” “buffalohead,” or “blockhead,” this little riverine fish from the Congo River basin has been around for quite awhile now, and I’ve been fond of it since the first time I saw it.

This fish is not, by any stretch of the imagination, colorful, or even ornately finned, and its distinctive head distortion is often not found attractive at all, but the combination of subtle grays and light brown colors, combined with some limited dorsal fin ray extensions, and, on mature, dominant males the cranial hump, all compliment each other and produce a pleasing, interesting little fish.

The buffalo head comes from fairly rapidly moving waters, and, like many fish of these environments, is not a graceful swimmer, its fins having developed more toward holding it in place against the currents. It does exhibit a strong, well muscled caudal peduncle, again, u...