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Cichlid breeds Picture Common name Species Lake Size Aggression Level Description Red Zebra: Pseudotropheus estherae: Malawi: 5 inches or 12.7 cm: Moderate: Mbuna: Very common in shops. Strangely, neither red, nor striped Aulonocara fort maguire: Aulonocara hansbaenschi: Malawi: 5 inches or 12.7 cm: Moderate: Utaka: Many variations Yellow Lab ...
Of the African cichlids, the West African or Lake Tanganyika cichlids are the most basal. [71] [76] Cichlids' common ancestor is believed to have been a spit-spawning species. [77] Both Madagascar and Indian cichlids retain this feature. However, of the African cichlids, all extant substrate brooding species originate solely from Lake Tanganyika.
Konings and his future wife started their own publishing company, Cichlid Press, in 1991.Its first book was titled the Cichlids Yearbook, vol. 1.The business grew and now publishes a number of cichlid guidebooks by Konings and other authors; its publications are often regarded as the standard reference works on various classes of African cichlids.
Tropheus moorii (blunthead cichlid) is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Over 40 different color morphs of this species are dispersed throughout the lake, ranging from dark green to flame red and yellow.
Almost all of the cichlid species of Lake Malawi, including mbuna and non mbuna such as the utaka, are believed to have descended from one or a very few species that became isolated in the lake. With rising water levels, new habitats could be colonized and the many isolated rocky outcrops allowed new mbuna species to form. [ 3 ]
Neolamprologus brichardi is a species of cichlid endemic to the alkaline waters of Lake Tanganyika in East Africa. [2] It is a popular aquarium fish kept in the fishkeeping hobby, [2] [3] where it is known under a variety of common names including Princess cichlid, Princess of Burundi, Lyretail cichlid, Fairy cichlid and Brichard's lamprologus.
Haplochromis is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cichlidae.It has been used as the default "wastebin taxon" for Pseudocrenilabrinae cichlids of the East African Rift, and as such became the "largest" fish "genus".
The Otjikoto tilapia (Tilapia guinasana) is a critically endangered species of cichlid fish endemic to Namibia where it was originally only found in Lake Guinas. [1] [2] This very small sinkhole lake contains quite clear water that generally ranges between 18 and 25 °C (64 and 77 °F) depending on season, [3] and the Otjikoto tilapia has been seen down to depths of 67 m (220 ft). [1]
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