I finally had to take my butterkofferi to a new home today,he had grown to about 5" and become a absolute terror beating on everything in the tank whenever they came close to "HIS" 2/3rds of the tank.So to teach him a lesson i took him to a local rescue centre where they have a mixed african cichlid community tank that is at least 1000 gallons,i watched him released into the tank and as soon as he was in he went straight into killing mode eating all the small fry he could.......That is until he came face to face with a adult pair of butterkofferi who were at least 12" each,never seen a fish turn tail and run so quick in my life
I think he will be very happy in his new tank and will be far better off than he would if i had kept him,lots more fish for him to terrorise in there



