Males are blue with darker blue stripes and have a yellow dorsal fin and tail. Females are either dull blue with darker blue stripes with a yellow dorsal fin and tail or maybe browner rather than blue. Males tend to color around 1.5 to 2". Single Males will mix with Peacocks and Haps.
Available through my special order lists, mostly in six-packs.
Peaceful to mildly aggressive mbuna that mixes well with many other African Cichlids
Best kept in mixed-sex groups, single males sometimes may work in single male tanks with milder peacocks and milder Lake Malawi Haplochromines. It is hard to beat the color of an all-male African Cichlid Tank.
The best mix of sex for breeding is one male with five or six females.
Never mix two mbuna of a similar color
Recommended Foods: Xtreme Cichlid PeeWee Cobalt Blue (Cobalt Aquatics) Cichlid Flakes or Spirulina Pellets or Flakes. Foods containing Spirulina help this fish to show their best color.
Profile Specs | |
Scientific Name | Labidochromis Sp. Mbamba (Yellow Top Mbamba) |
Common Name(s) | Yellow Top Mbamba |
Geo. Origin | Mbamba Bay; Tanzania |
Habitat | Sediment-Rich Rocky Habitat |
Diet | Herbivore |
Gender Differences | Dimorphic |
Breeding | Maternal Mouthbrooder |
Temperament | Mildly Aggressive |
Conspecific Temperament | Highly Aggressive |
Maximum Size | 3.5" |
Temperature | 78 - 82F |
pH | 7.8 - 8.6 |
Water Hardness | Hard |
Labidochromis sp. "Mbamba" (Yellow Top Mbamba) (Yellow Fin Mbamba)
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