Iodotropheus stuartgranti "Gome"
Gome — GOH-meh (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 Iodotropheus stuartgranti account →Specific to Gome
- 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 Iodotropheus stuartgranti.
The Gome population
Iodotropheus stuartgranti "Gome" is the Gome population of Iodotropheus stuartgranti, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the south-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Iodotropheus stuartgranti, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Gome fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Iodotropheus stuartgranti is a small, purplish rock-dwelling cichlid from Lake Malawi, one of a handful of species in the genus Iodotropheus that share the muted, iridescent "rusty" colouring of the far better-known Iodotropheus sprengerae. It was carved out of the sprengerae species complex once careful comparison of colour, meristics, and distribution showed several distinct populations hiding under one name. Documented from the Gome area on the western shore, it is a quiet, unassuming mbuna — easy to overlook next to the lake's flashier blues and yellows, but a good example of how much hidden diversity Lake Malawi's rocky shoreline still holds.
Full Iodotropheus stuartgranti account →