ASSORTED MBUNA CICHLID – ROCK-DWELLING MBUNA CICHLID

Choosing Mbunas can be overwhelming, so we made it easy right here. Just choose your quantity and we’ll pick you an assortment based on seasonal availability at the farm. Order more, you’ll get more varieties! Mbuna in natureTo keep mbuna cichlids at their best, look at how and where they live in nature. Mbuna are endemic to Lake Malawi in Africa’s Great Rift Valley — a 3,700-mile long trench created by the African tectonic plate tearing apart. Malawi is a gigantic crevice. It filled with river water and fish — and these then changed, evolved and adapted to suit their new, lacustrine environment. A lake of that size comes complete with waves, rocky cliffs and sandy beaches. Lake Malawi is the ninth largest lake in the world. So think freshwater reef fish and you would be about right, as the colorful yellow and blue mbuna we keep bask in the clear blue, sunlit waters and live in and around the rocky outcrops. Cichlid paradise! Maternal mouthbroodersAll the mbuna, and all the other haplo