Tropheus brichardi "North of Kigoma"
North of Kigoma — NORTH OHF kee-GOH-mah (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 Tropheus brichardi account →Specific to North of Kigoma
- 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 Tropheus brichardi.
The North of Kigoma population
Tropheus brichardi "North of Kigoma" is the North of Kigoma population of Tropheus brichardi, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the northern part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheus brichardi, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living North of Kigoma fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Tropheus brichardi is a stocky, algae-grazing cichlid endemic to the rocky shorelines of Lake Tanganyika, the fish for which the whole hard-tempered genus Tropheus is named in hobby shorthand. Females and juveniles wear crisp vertical bars while adult males fade to a sober olive-brown, often keeping just a stripe or two of yellow. Unusually for its genus, it tolerates a measure of silt that purer rock-grazers refuse, which lets it hold ground in murkier water and deeper, sediment-dusted reef. In the aquarium it is famous on two counts: an intricate colony social life and an exasperating tendency toward 'bloat' when its low-protein gut is fed the wrong food.
Full Tropheus brichardi account →Sources
- tanganyika.si — Tropheus brichardi 'North of Kigoma'
- Tropheus brichardi summary page
- Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes (Tropheus brichardi species entry)
- GBIF: Tropheus brichardi Nelissen & Thys van den Audenaerde, 1975
- ITIS Report: Tropheus brichardi (TSN 648933)
- Richardson-Coy, R. 2017. Feeding Selectivity of an Algivore (Tropheus brichardi) in Lake Tanganyika (M.S. thesis, Wright State University)
- Sturmbauer, Mark & Dallinger 1992. Ecophysiology of Aufwuchs-eating cichlids in Lake Tanganyika: niche separation by trophic specialization
- IUCN Red List — Tropheus brichardi "North of Kigoma"