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Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" "Mbweca Rocks"Metriaclima sp. "Mbweca"

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.

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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".

CARESNOT LISTED
Genus type speciesMaylandia greshakeidescribed as Pseudotropheus (Maylandia) greshakei Meyer & Förster 1984
Scientific size4 in10 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)up to 446 ppm
Habitat watermoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppmLake Malawi
Depth10–66 ft3–20 m
DietAufwuchs grazer (algae, diatoms and associated micro-invertebrates scraped from rock)
BreedingMaternal mouthbroodernot documented for this population
Sexual dimorphismYesNot documented in detail for this population; genus-typical dichromatism expected, with males the more brightly coloured sex
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

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 →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Maylandia sp. "Mbweca" "Mbweca Rocks"
  2. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat, 5th ed. (Cichlid Press)
  3. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Genus record (authority for valid names; this trade name has no catalog entry)
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