Labidochromis shiranus "Nkhudzi"
Nkhudzi — n-KOO-dzee (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 Labidochromis shiranus account →Specific to Nkhudzi
- 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 Labidochromis shiranus.
The Nkhudzi population
Labidochromis shiranus "Nkhudzi" is the Nkhudzi population of Labidochromis shiranus, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Labidochromis shiranus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Nkhudzi fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Labidochromis shiranus is a small, plainly coloured mbuna from Lake Malawi, one of the lesser-known members of a genus better known in the hobby for the bright yellow Labidochromis caeruleus. Like every Labidochromis, it carries the genus's diagnostic narrow, forceps-tipped snout, built for plucking small invertebrates out of rock crevices rather than grazing algae from open stone. It is a fish known mainly from collection-locality records around the central lake rather than from the aquarium trade.
Full Labidochromis shiranus account →