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Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast" "Pombo Rocks"

Pombo Rocks — POHM-boh ROKS (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.

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Specific to Pombo Rocks

  • 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 sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size4 in10 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 446 ppm
Depth7–49 ft2–15 m
DietAlgae/Aufwuchs grazer, rasping filamentous algae and associated invertebrates from rock
Breedingmaternal mouthbroodernot documented for this form; expected modest (genus-typical, a few dozen eggs)
Sexual dimorphismYesNot documented in detail for this form specifically. The trade name indicates nuptial males show a yellow-flushed breast; females are expected to be plainer, per the general mbuna pattern. Species-specific colour detail for the parent epithet-holder, Pseudotropheus perspicax, is itself not confirmed in the literature consulted here.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Pombo Rocks population

Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast" "Pombo Rocks" is the Pombo Rocks population of Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast", 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 sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Pombo Rocks fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast" is an undescribed mbuna recorded at Pombo Rocks, on the Tanzanian shore of Lake Malawi. It has no formal scientific name. The trade tag borrows its first word from Pseudotropheus perspicax, a small rock-dwelling mbuna documented along the lake’s west-central Malawian shore, and adds a colour qualifier for a yellow-flushed breast reported on nuptial males of this particular population. Whether the Pombo Rocks fish is the same species found far from its known range, or simply a similarly patterned relative, is not established. It is filed under Chindongo — the genus Ad Konings split from Pseudotropheus in 2016 — in the field and hobby literature this account draws on, and it awaits formal description.

Full Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Chindongo sp. "Perspicax Yellow Breast" "Pombo Rocks"
  2. malawi.si — Chindongo species and locality-form database (Konings-based; distribution, biotope)
  3. Cichlid Room Companion — Chindongo genus and mbuna taxonomy (Ad Konings, curator)
  4. malawi.si — Pseudotropheus perspicax (Konings-sourced species profile; parent epithet for this trade name)
  5. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press; foremost Malawi field authority)