CYPRICHROMIS LEPTOSOMA (London Zoo) - FANTASTIC CICHLIDS OF LAKE TANGANYIKA

Another one of my favourites and this time a Cichlid from Lake Tanganyika is this stunningly beautiful fish.

These will one day occupy two, two metre aquariums owned by me with the two most favourite fish of mine in each also from Lake Tanganyika ...

Cyathopharynx furcifer and various Tropheus of moorii mainly along with duboisi, brichardi, sp. RED and sp. BLACK ...

For God sake bloody name the damn things properly damn you! Lol!

Oh I think they are 'leptosoma'?

I love that lake and would love to venture there one day!

I was already very highly knowledgeable on fish, amphibians and other animals at the age of 16 as my Dad haad a famous pet shop and we were importers when I visited another importer and saw a tank full of Tropheus moorii 'Kaiser' and was stopped in my tracks!

I spent year killing several types before an author named Ad Konings, I spoke to years later, pointed out in his first book that bloodworm block their intestines and kills them!

A few years later I saw Cyathopharynx furcifer and to my shock that just pipped Tropheus moorii at becoming my favourite fish!

Up until then I had loved the North American Rainbow Dace and Darters, Killifish and varoius other mouth brooding Cichlids like Egyptian Mouthbreeders, Dwarf Cichlids and various others.

Amphibians were always y absolute number one thing but these and many others played a close second to these ...

Like Green Tree Pythons, Chondropythoin, noooo CHONDROPYTHON, (Morelia) viridis. SOme of the European Lacertids, like Wall Lizards, Gila Monsters and Beaded Dragons, Plumed Basilisks and others.

WHOLESALE SERIES: TROPICALI: LABEOTROPHEUS CAERULEUS

I think I remembered the latin correctly on this one and more one to stick in my mind as these come from one of three great lakes in Africa's stunning Rift Valley.

Running north to south the three biggest lakes are Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi (where these guys are from) and my favourite Lake Tanganyika.

Lake Tanganyika is the second largest lake and more like an inland sea but not...quite. It does contain a TYPE of salt and has crabs and even jellyfish. It is also extremely deep too.

The depth should not hold any life as oxygen is non existent at more than about 15 metres depth and as the lake is a mile deep...hmm or is that TWO, it has a great deal of water.

Mind you what with it sitting in a volcanic rift I have wondered about its depths as we now know that life only needs water and those deep see hot vents harbouring many forms of life?!

Often sold as Yellow Lab Cichlids and these are Mouthbreeders.