Neolamprologus toae "Kigoma"
Kigoma — kee-GOH-mah (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 toae account →Specific to Kigoma
- 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 toae.
The Kigoma population
Neolamprologus toae "Kigoma" is the Kigoma population of Neolamprologus toae, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus toae, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Kigoma fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus toae is a small, understated lamprologine cichlid found only in Lake Tanganyika, where it patrols the cluttered zone where sandy or muddy bottoms give way to rock. It is a nocturnal, bottom-oriented predator on insect larvae and crustaceans, and a secretive cave spawner rather than one of the lake's flashy mouthbrooders. Rarely common at any single site and only sporadically traded, it is the kind of fish that biotope enthusiasts prize precisely because it is not a showroom staple.
Full Neolamprologus toae account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus toae "Kigoma"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Lamprologus toae (Poll 1949), valid as Neolamprologus toae
- FishBase — Neolamprologus toae (Poll, 1949) summary
- GBIF — Neolamprologus toae (Poll, 1949)
- Encyclopedia of Life — Neolamprologus toae
- O'Reilly et al. 2003, Nature — Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika