[Snaky]

Since cyrtopsis has often a long brumation period and a small active period, I thaught this might help explain why. I've never treated their brumation differently as other species. So they have a very good eating period during (May)-June-July-August. During the other months they sometimes wait for weeks, especially the males. The females need some good food source to produce the young, but the males don't need anything like that. They can do a month on only a small amount of fish.

I've never kept good records about this though (Not that of a statistics guy). So this is my perception on keeping them for some years.