Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" "Chiloelo"
Chiloelo — chee-loh-EH-loh (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. "Mauve Yellow" account →Specific to Chiloelo
- 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. "Mauve Yellow".
The Chiloelo population
Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" "Chiloelo" is the Chiloelo population of Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow", a geographic colour form from the Mozambique coast of Lake Malawi in the south-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Chiloelo fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" is an undescribed rock-dwelling mbuna recorded from a scattered set of localities on both shores of northern Lake Malawi and into Mozambican waters. Like other Tropheops it is a specialised algae grazer, taking its trade name from the mauve-and-yellow breeding colouration reported in males. It has not been the subject of a dedicated published account, so this record is necessarily conservative: it is placed in Tropheops on general anatomical grounds and described here mainly in terms of what the genus and the trade name itself indicate, rather than a fully documented independent colour description. No authority, publication year, FishBase number, or IUCN status should be attached to it.
Full Tropheops sp. "Mauve Yellow" account →