Chindongo longior "Puulu"
Puulu — poo-OO-loo (approx.)
The fish
How this cichlid is built, and everything about how it lives, eats and breeds, is shared with the species — this page doesn't repeat it.
Read the full Chindongo longior account →Specific to Puulu
- Collection locality & coordinates
- Local coloration — best judged from the living-fish photo
- Kept as a single-provenance line, never crossed with other collection points
Care facts below are the species' — shared with Chindongo longior.
The Puulu population
Chindongo longior "Puulu" is the Puulu population of Chindongo longior, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Chindongo longior, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Puulu fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Chindongo longior is a small, rock-dwelling mbuna from the northern shore of Lake Malawi, part of the genus Chindongo erected in 2016 to house the elongate-bodied relatives of the well-known "elongatus complex." Its species name — Latin for "longer" — echoes that theme directly, describing a body proportionally more slender and torpedo-shaped than the typical deep-bodied mbuna it lives alongside. Like its genus-mates it is a territorial algae grazer confined to the lake's rocky shoreline habitat.
Full Chindongo longior account →