Tropheus sp. mpimbwe "Shanshete"
Shanshete — shahn-SHEH-teh (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 sp. mpimbwe account →Specific to Shanshete
- 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 sp. mpimbwe.
The Shanshete population
Tropheus sp. mpimbwe "Shanshete" is the Shanshete population of Tropheus sp. mpimbwe, a geographic colour form from the Tanzania coast of Lake Tanganyika in the north-central part of the lake. It is the same species as Tropheus sp. mpimbwe, distinguished by its collection locality and local coloration; aquarists keep and breed it as a discrete, provenance-labelled line.
Colour reference: living Shanshete fish at tanganyika.si →
About the species
Tropheus sp. mpimbwe is an undescribed rock-grazing Tropheus of Lake Tanganyika — a distinctive geographic colour form (or complex of forms) recognized and traded by aquarists and documented in the biotope literature, but not yet formally described. Like the lake's other locality forms, it is kept and bred by collection point, and its value to hobbyists lies precisely in that documented provenance.
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