Otopharynx heterodon "Cobwe"
Cobwe — KOH-bweh (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 Otopharynx heterodon account →Specific to Cobwe
- 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 Otopharynx heterodon.
The Cobwe population
Otopharynx heterodon "Cobwe" is the Cobwe population of Otopharynx heterodon, a geographic colour form from Lake Malawi in Lake Malawi part of the lake. It is the same species as Otopharynx heterodon, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cobwe fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Otopharynx heterodon, the royal blue hap, is a mid-sized haplochromine cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi, where it ranges the length of the lake along the seam between rock and sand. Males glow metallic blue with a yellow chest; the more sober, three-spotted females do the parenting, brooding eggs in their mouths. It earns its living the unglamorous way — sifting edible particles out of sediment stirred up off the bottom — and its mild temperament has made it a recurring, if cyclical, favorite among Malawi aquarists.
Full Otopharynx heterodon account →Sources
- malawi.si — Otopharynx heterodon "Cobwe"
- Otopharynx heterodon (Royal blue hap) — FishBase species summary
- Otopharynx heterodon — FishBase territory/distribution list
- Haplochromis heterodon Trewavas, 1935 — FishBase synonym detail
- Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer/CAS) — Otopharynx heterodon species record
- Otopharynx heterodon (Trewavas, 1935) — CLOFFA / Africa Museum type record