Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad" "Youngs Bay"
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 sp. "Psammophilus Broad" account →Specific to Youngs Bay
- 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 sp. "Psammophilus Broad".
The Youngs Bay population
Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad" "Youngs Bay" is the Youngs Bay population of Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Youngs Bay fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad" is an undescribed predatory cichlid recorded from Youngs Bay on Lake Malawi, associated in field references with the described sand-dwelling species S. psammophilus but distinguished by a broader body or head. It belongs to the same small genus of open-water hunters as the widely traded electric-blue S. fryeri; no authority, formal description or conservation status attaches to it, and precise coordinates for the Youngs Bay record are not available.
Full Sciaenochromis sp. "Psammophilus Broad" account →