Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu" "Makokola Reef"
Makokola Reef — mah-koh-KOH-lah REEF (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 Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu" account →Specific to Makokola Reef
- 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 Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu".
The Makokola Reef population
Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu" "Makokola Reef" is the Makokola Reef population of Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu", a geographic colour form from the Malawi coast of Lake Malawi in the southern part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Makokola Reef fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu" is an undescribed rock-dwelling mbuna documented at Boadzulu Island and neighbouring Makokola Reef, near the southeastern end of Lake Malawi. Boadzulu is one of the lake's better-studied reefs, host to dozens of named locality forms across several genera, and this Tropheops is one more piece of that mosaic — a population distinguished, like most Tropheops "sp." forms, essentially by where it was collected. It has never been given a formal scientific description, and no authority, IUCN status, or FishBase entry should be attached to it.
Full Tropheops sp. "Boadzulu" account →