Petrotilapia tridentiger "Pombo Rocks"
Petrotilapia tridentiger (Boadzulu Island, Nkhata Bay, Pombo Rocks, Thumbi West Island)
Pombo Rocks — POHM-boh 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.
Read the full Petrotilapia tridentiger account →Specific to Pombo 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 Petrotilapia tridentiger.
The Pombo Rocks population
Petrotilapia tridentiger "Pombo Rocks" is the Pombo Rocks population of Petrotilapia tridentiger, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Petrotilapia tridentiger, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Pombo Rocks fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Petrotilapia tridentiger is the type species of Petrotilapia, a genus of robust, highly specialised algae-scraping mbuna that dominate the wave-washed rocky surf zone of Lake Malawi. Its name — Latin for "three-tooth-bearer" — describes the genus's diagnostic tricuspid teeth, packed in dense rows and built to comb algal turf off rock under the heavy surge that keeps subtler grazers away. Males of the genus are among the most muscular and pugnaciously territorial of the lake's mbuna.
Full Petrotilapia tridentiger account →