Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North" "Cape Kaiser"
Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North" (Cape Kaiser, Ikombe, Lundu, Magunga, Makonde, Ngwasi)
Cape Kaiser — KAYP KY-zer (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. "Red Cheek North" account →Specific to Cape Kaiser
- 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. "Red Cheek North".
The Cape Kaiser population
Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North" "Cape Kaiser" is the Cape Kaiser population of Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North", a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Malawi in the far northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North", distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Cape Kaiser fish at malawi.si →
About the species
Tropheops sp. 'red cheek north' is an undescribed rock mbuna from the far northern, Tanzanian end of Lake Malawi, named as the northern counterpart to Tropheops sp. 'red cheek,' which is documented much farther south around the Likoma-Chizumulu islands and Cape Maclear. The paired trade names flag a shared reddish cheek marking on males in both forms while explicitly treating them as geographically and, by implication, taxonomically separate. Neither has been formally described.
Full Tropheops sp. "Red Cheek North" account →