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Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" "Manda"Metriaclima sp. "Dumpy Tanzania"

Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" (Manda)

Manda — MAHN-dah (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 Manda

  • 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 Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania".

CARESNOT LISTED
Genus type speciesMaylandia greshakeidescribed as Pseudotropheus (Maylandia) greshakei Meyer & Förster 1984
Scientific size4.5 in11 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)up to 357 ppm
Habitat watermoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppmLake Malawi
Depth7–49 ft2–15 m
DietAufwuchs grazer (genus-typical), scraping algal film and associated invertebrates from rock surfaces.
BreedingMaternal mouthbrooder (polygynous, male-territorial; cave/crevice territory presumed)Not documented for this form; genus-typical range roughly 12-40 eggs
Sexual dimorphismMinimalColour pattern not documented for this form; the 'dumpy' trade name refers to an unusually short, deep-bodied build rather than a colour feature.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Manda population

Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" "Manda" is the Manda population of Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Manda fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" is an undescribed rock-dwelling mbuna recorded at Manda, a rocky locality on Lake Malawi's Tanzanian shore near the lake's northern end. As with its namesake form from Chitimba Bay on the opposite, Malawian side of the lake, "dumpy" describes an unusually short, deep-bodied build rather than a colour pattern, and the "Tanzania" qualifier distinguishes this population by country and locality from other "dumpy" forms recorded elsewhere around the lake.

Full Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Maylandia sp. "Dumpy Tanzania" "Manda"
  2. malawi.si — species and locality database (Konings-based)
  3. Cichlid Room Companion — Maylandia genus overview (Ad Konings, curator)
  4. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press; foremost Malawi field authority)
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