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Placidochromis elongatus "South East Arm"

South East Arm — SOWTH EEST ARM (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.

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Specific to South East Arm

  • 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 Placidochromis elongatus.

IUCNLEAST CONCERN · 2018
CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size2.9 in7.45 cm standard length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.8alkaline
Depth82–220 ft25–67 m
DietInvertivore
BreedingMaternal mouthbrooderUndocumented for this species; genus-typical small haplochromine clutches of a few dozen eggs
Sexual dimorphismYesExpected on the model of the Lake Malawi haplochromine flock, with males larger and more colourful, though poorly documented for this deep-water, trawl-known species.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The South East Arm population

Placidochromis elongatus "South East Arm" is the South East Arm population of Placidochromis elongatus, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Placidochromis elongatus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living South East Arm fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Placidochromis elongatus is a small, slender haplochromine cichlid known only from the deep water of southern Lake Malawi, where it lives between roughly 80 and 220 feet (25-67 m) down. Described in 2004 from trawl-caught specimens, it is one of the genus's "deep-water" species: a fish science met through a net rather than a mask, never gathered for the aquarium trade and almost unknown to hobbyists. Its story is less about the tank than about how much of a famous lake's diversity still lives out of sight.

Full Placidochromis elongatus account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Placidochromis elongatus "South East Arm"
  2. Placidochromis elongatus - FishBase summary
  3. Placidochromis elongatus Hanssens, 2004 - GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
  4. Catalog of Fishes (Eschmeyer) - Placidochromis elongatus species record
  5. Hanssens, M. 2004. The deep-water Placidochromis species. In Snoeks (ed.), The Cichlid Diversity of Lake Malawi/Nyasa/Niassa (Cichlid Press) - original description
  6. Placidochromis milomo - FishBase (congener diet/ecology comparison)