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Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" "Gome"

Gome — GOH-meh (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 Gome

  • 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 sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size4 in10 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 446 ppm
Depth7–49 ft2–15 m
DietAlgae grazer (Aufwuchs), scraping the algal mat and associated microfauna from rock surfaces
Breedingmaternal mouthbroodernot documented for this form; expected modest (a few dozen eggs), genus-typical
Sexual dimorphismYesBreeding males reported blue-bodied; specific pattern and the extent of difference from females not documented in detail for this form.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Gome population

Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" "Gome" is the Gome population of Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique", 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 sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Gome fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" is an undescribed mbuna cichlid documented along the Mozambique shore of Lake Malawi, around Chuanga and Metangula, with a further record at Gome on the Malawian side. Its trade name flags the two features aquarists have used to identify it — a "lucerna" designation used elsewhere in the mbuna trade and the deep blue ground colour of breeding males — but the fish has never been given a formal scientific description, and no authority, IUCN status, or FishBase entry should be attached to it.

Full Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Pseudotropheus sp. "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" "Gome"
  2. Cichlid Room Companion — genus Pseudotropheus
  3. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press)
  4. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (Fricke, Eschmeyer & Van der Laan, eds., CAS) — searched: no valid name for the undescribed "Lucerna Blue Mozambique" form