Neolamprologus christyi "Kisambala"
Kisambala — kee-sahm-BAH-lah (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 Neolamprologus christyi account →Specific to Kisambala
- 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 Neolamprologus christyi.
The Kisambala population
Neolamprologus christyi "Kisambala" is the Kisambala population of Neolamprologus christyi, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the north-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus christyi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Kisambala fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus christyi is a substrate-spawning lamprologine cichlid endemic to the rocky shallows of southern Lake Tanganyika. Slender and forked-tailed, it shifts from a pale, blue-trimmed juvenile to a matte chocolate-black adult, and it carries one of the most fearsome tempers in a genus already known for short fuses. It is a fish that field biologists have caught breeding across species lines and that aquarists treat with genuine respect.
Full Neolamprologus christyi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus christyi "Kisambala"
- FishBase: Neolamprologus christyi (summary, ID 8655)
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (California Academy of Sciences)
- FishBase point/occurrence data for Neolamprologus christyi
- GBIF: Neolamprologus christyi (Trewavas & Poll, 1952)
- Sturmbauer et al. (2010), Evolutionary history of the Lake Tanganyika cichlid tribe Lamprologini (Mol. Phylogenet. Evol.)