Neolamprologus tretocephalus "Kaswente Bay"
Kaswente Bay — kah-SWEHN-teh BAY (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 tretocephalus account →Specific to Kaswente Bay
- 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 tretocephalus.
The Kaswente Bay population
Neolamprologus tretocephalus "Kaswente Bay" is the Kaswente Bay population of Neolamprologus tretocephalus, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Neolamprologus tretocephalus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Kaswente Bay fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Neolamprologus tretocephalus, the five-bar cichlid, is a stocky rock-dweller endemic to the northern half of Lake Tanganyika, instantly recognizable by the five bold black bars on a pearly blue-grey body. It is a snail-crushing carnivore of the shallow rocky shore and a famously belligerent fish, capable of holding territory against far larger tankmates. Long mistaken for a peaceful dwarf because of its modest size, it is in fact one of the more uncompromising lamprologines an aquarist can keep.
Full Neolamprologus tretocephalus account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Neolamprologus tretocephalus "Kaswente Bay"
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Neolamprologus tretocephalus
- FishBase: Neolamprologus tretocephalus (Boulenger, 1899)
- GBIF: Neolamprologus tretocephalus
- Encyclopedia of Life: Neolamprologus tretocephalus
- O'Reilly et al. 2003, Climate change decreases aquatic ecosystem productivity of Lake Tanganyika (Nature; PubMed)