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Sciaenochromis sp. "Stripe Tanzania" "Lundu"

Lundu — LOON-doo (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 Lundu

  • 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. "Stripe Tanzania".

CARESNOT LISTED
Scientific size7 in18 cm total length
Temperature75–81 °F24–27 °C
pH7.7–8.6alkaline
Hardness (GH)very hardup to 339 ppm
Depth16–131 ft5–40 m
DietPiscivore, presumed genus-typical predator of small fish (small mbuna and other small cichlids)
Breedingmaternal mouthbrooder (inferred from genus/flock)not documented for this form
Sexual dimorphismMinimalNot documented for this form; described congeners show strong male breeding colour against cryptic barred females.
PhotographsSee photosGoogle Images →

The Lundu population

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

Colour reference: living Lundu fish at malawi.si →

About the species

Sciaenochromis sp. "Stripe Tanzania" is an undescribed predatory cichlid recorded from Lundu on Lake Malawi's Tanzanian shore, distinguished in field references by a striped body pattern and separated from the several other unassigned Sciaenochromis forms simply by that Tanzanian range. 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.

Full Sciaenochromis sp. "Stripe Tanzania" account →

Sources

  1. malawi.si — Sciaenochromis sp. "Stripe Tanzania" "Lundu"
  2. Sciaenochromis | Cichlid Room Companion (genus profile, valid & undescribed species)
  3. malawi.si — Sciaenochromis species and locality-form database (Konings-based; distribution, biotope)
  4. FishBase — Sciaenochromis ahli summary (size, depth, chemistry, IUCN)