Aquarist Atlas
↑ Collection form of Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold"

Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" "Ndumbi Rocks"

Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" (Ndumbi Rocks)

Ndumbi Rocks — n-DOOM-bee 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 Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" account →

Specific to Ndumbi 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 Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold".

CARESNOT LISTED
Genus type speciesPseudotropheus williamsidescribed as Chromis williamsi Günther 1894
Scientific size4 in10 cm total length
Temperature75–82 °F24–28 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)up to 446 ppm
Habitat watermoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppmLake Malawi
Depth10–49 ft3–15 m
DietAlgae grazer (aufwuchs), scraping the algal mat and associated microfauna from rock surfaces (genus-typical Pseudotropheus)
Breedingmaternal mouthbroodernot documented for this form; expected modest (a few dozen eggs), genus-typical
Sexual dimorphismMinimalNo sexual dimorphism documented for this specific population beyond the golden ground colour.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Ndumbi Rocks population

Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" "Ndumbi Rocks" is the Ndumbi Rocks population of Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the central part of the lake. It is the same species as Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.

Colour reference: living Ndumbi Rocks fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" is an undescribed mbuna cichlid recorded from Ndumbi Rocks, part of the rocky cluster around Likoma Island in central Lake Malawi that also produces Labidochromis gigas, Cynotilapia zebroides, Maylandia zebra, Labeotropheus fuelleborni and several other locality-documented cichlids. Its trade name flags a golden ground colour as the field character distinguishing it from its neighbours on the same reef. It has never been given a formal scientific description; no authority, IUCN status, or FishBase entry should be attached to it.

Full Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" "Ndumbi Rocks"
  2. Cichlid Room Companion — genus Pseudotropheus
  3. Konings, A. — Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat (Cichlid Press)
Add this species card to your site

Paste this into a product listing, club page or blog post. It shows this species’ size, water ranges and conservation status, kept current from the atlas, with a link to this page. Free to use; keep the link intact, as it is the attribution. How the card works.

<div data-atlas="species/pseudotropheus-sp-ndumbi-gold-ndumbi-rocks"><a href="https://www.aquaristatlas.com/species/pseudotropheus-sp-ndumbi-gold-ndumbi-rocks/">Pseudotropheus sp. "Ndumbi Gold" "Ndumbi Rocks" on Aquarist Atlas</a></div>
<script src="https://www.aquaristatlas.com/embed/v1/card.js" async referrerpolicy="no-referrer"></script>