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↑ Collection form of Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo"

Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo" "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 Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size4.5 in12 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 357 ppm
Depth33–98 ft10–30 m
DietAufwuchs grazer & plankton picker (genus- and relative-typical)
BreedingMaternal mouthbrooder (polygynous, male-territorial)Not documented for this form; ~15-30 eggs reported for the resembled M. hajomaylandi
Sexual dimorphismMinimalPresumed present by resemblance to M. hajomaylandi (steel-blue barred males, orange head/belly), but not independently confirmed for this geographically separate population.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Pombo Rocks population

Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo" "Pombo Rocks" is the Pombo Rocks population of Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo", 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

Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo" is an undescribed mbuna cichlid recorded from Ndumbi Point and Pombo Rocks on the Tanzanian shore of Lake Malawi. Its trade name signals a resemblance to the formally described Maylandia hajomaylandi, a species otherwise known as a single-island endemic of Chizumulu Island on the far side of the lake. This form's occurrence on the Tanzanian coast marks it as a distinct, unnamed population rather than a range extension of the true species, and it has never itself been given a scientific name.

Full Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Maylandia sp. "Hajomaylandi Pombo" "Pombo Rocks"
  2. malawi.si — Maylandia species and locality database
  3. Cichlid Room Companion — Maylandia genus overview (Ad Konings, curator)
  4. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press; Maylandia hajomaylandi, Chizumulu Island, and Tanzanian-shore mbuna)