sentences:  In captivity, it readily consumes commercial flakes or pellets.This cichlid is a pair-bonded substrate brooder, meaning the male and female mate monogamously (at least for the reproductive season) and the eggs are laid on a substrate to which they stick, rather than brooded inside the mouth.The male and female form a pair after an initial courtship phase, then establish a territory centered on the future laying substrate, such as rocks.