Popular lake malawi cichlids auloncara.

Types of lake malawi cichlids. Mbuna mostly herbivore fish. Haplochromis mostly carnivore fish. Fish information on the types of cichlids from lake tanganyika tropheus cichlids frontosa goby cichlids shelldwellers and more habitats and cichlids tanks for tanganyika cichlids.

Have been cataloged into 3 major sub species. Utaka cichlids are another genus that is so so popular among aquarists. For each genus and species therefore endemicity is indicated.

I have tried to compile a full list of all the cichlid species in lake malawi. Commonly known as peacocks auloncara come in a wide variety of species and are some of the most beautiful. None of the twelve families is endemic to lake malawi but two of the genera the cyprinid engraulicypris and the clariid bathyclarias and some of the species are endemic.

What other fish can live with african cichlids. Technically protomelas taeniolatus the red empress is a fish closely related to the auloncara species but. Botia loaches clown loach red tail shark.