Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" "Mbweca Rocks"
Mbweca Rocks — m-BWEH-cah 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.
Read the full Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" account →Specific to Mbweca 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. "Mbweca".
The Mbweca Rocks population
Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" "Mbweca Rocks" is the Mbweca Rocks population of Maylandia sp. "Mbweca", a geographic colour form from the Mozambique coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Maylandia sp. "Mbweca", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Mbweca Rocks fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" is an undescribed mbuna recorded at Mbweca Rocks on the Mozambique shore of Lake Malawi. The trade name simply records the reef where this population was collected; no widely used colour or descriptive qualifier attaches to it. It has no describing author, no FishBase record, and no IUCN assessment.
Full Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" account →