Sciaenochromis psammophilus "Cobwe"
Cobwe — KOH-bweh (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 Sciaenochromis psammophilus account →Specific to Cobwe
- 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 Sciaenochromis psammophilus.
The Cobwe population
Sciaenochromis psammophilus "Cobwe" is the Cobwe population of Sciaenochromis psammophilus, a geographic colour form from Lake Malawi in Lake Malawi part of the lake. It is the same species as Sciaenochromis psammophilus, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cobwe fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Sciaenochromis psammophilus, the "electric blue kande," is a sand-dwelling predatory cichlid endemic to Lake Malawi and named for that very habit — psammophilus is Greek for "sand-loving." It is the close, often-confused cousin of the famous electric blue hap (Sciaenochromis fryeri): a silvery-blue male barred with dark vertical stripes and washed with yellow in the dorsal and tail, hunting small fish a hand's breadth above the open sand. Described by Ad Konings only in 1993, it remains uncommon in the hobby and is best understood as the dark-barred, yellow-finned member of an electric-blue genus that the aquarium trade has spent decades muddling together.
Full Sciaenochromis psammophilus account →Sources
- malawi.si — Sciaenochromis psammophilus "Cobwe"
- FishBase — Sciaenochromis psammophilus (Electric blue kande)
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes — Sciaenochromis psammophilus (species record)
- GBIF — Sciaenochromis psammophilus occurrence search
- Konings, A. 1993 — A revision of the genus Sciaenochromis Eccles & Trewavas, 1989 (The Cichlids Yearbook vol. 3, pp. 28–36; original description of S. psammophilus, Cichlid Press)
- FishBase — references used for Sciaenochromis psammophilus