Pseudotropheus galanos "Mbenji Island"
Pseudotropheus galanos (Fuawe Island, Mbenji Island)
Mbenji Island — m-BEHN-jee EYE-land (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 Pseudotropheus galanos account →Specific to Mbenji Island
- 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 Pseudotropheus galanos.
The Mbenji Island population
Pseudotropheus galanos "Mbenji Island" is the Mbenji Island population of Pseudotropheus galanos, a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the south-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Pseudotropheus galanos, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Mbenji Island fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Pseudotropheus galanos is a rock-dwelling mbuna known from Fuawe Island and Mbenji Island, two small islets off Lake Malawi's west-central shore that sit close enough together to plausibly host a single interbreeding population. Like other mbuna it spends its whole life in the shallow rocky littoral, grazing algae from boulders and defending a patch of territory, and its epithet is widely read as an allusion to blue colouration, a shade that dominates the display dress of many male mbuna in this part of the lake.
Full Pseudotropheus galanos account →