Ice Blue Zebra Cichlid
Zebra cichlid aquarium setup.
Ice blue zebra cichlid. In 1997 stauffer et al. This zebra has a light blue body with bright orange dorsal fin and tail. 73 0 to 78 0 f.
A grouping including more than 10 mbunas is recommended as this will spread out aggressive behavior. Mbunas are very territorial aggressive fish even more so than haplochromis cichlids like the electric blue ahli. The name maylandia honours the cichlid enthusiast and author about aquaria hans joachim mayland who died in 2004 was proposed as a subgenus of pseudotropheus in 1984 naming the long known but undescribed ice blue zebra as the type species.
4 5 inches. Males will defend their territory firece and bold. So zebra cichlids should only be kept with other mbunas.
Females are more brownish. He will be more aggressive toward other greshakei males than towards other species but other species won t try to take his females. The pseudotropheus ice blue maylandia greshakei also known as william s mbuna is a pretty zebra type cichlid from lake malawi africa.
It has a very appealing coloration of an ice blue body contrasted with a bright orange top fin. It has a very appealing coloration of an ice blue body contrasted with a bright orange top fin. It makes a great fish to add variety in a mbuna cichlid tank.
Ice blue zebra cichlid william s mbuna red top ice blue. The pseudotropheus ice blue maylandia greshakei also known as william s mbuna is a pretty zebra type cichlid from lake malawi africa.
