Powder Blue Cichlid
Males will have a brighter blue color than females almost as if they were shiny whitish blue.
Powder blue cichlid. The will accept a variety of store bought foods as well. The coloration of the powder blue is a pale blue background with seven to eight blue black bars with four orange egg shaped spots on the anal fin. Their diet should consist of mostly veggies and some live foods.
Pseudotropheus pindani pseudotropheus eduardi aseudotropheus socolofi err haplochromis jacksoni. The easiest way to sex it is by observing it s behaviour. The powder blue cichlid feeds primarily on algae plant matter and the micro crustaceans found living on the algae and plants they graze on.
Powder blue cichlid pseudotropheus socolofi. The powder blue cichlid is an omnivorous fish. I wanted two cobalt blues but after some inspection when i got back home i noticed the black fins with the light edges and realized that he was a different fish.
Not an easy species to sex as both males and females exhibit the same bright powder blue colouration. The powder blue cichlid is also known as the powder blue cichlid or malawi cichlid and comes from the rocky shores of lake malawi africa. Powder blue cichlid or pindani is a fairly well known popular fish among the cichlid community.
In the aquarium environment hobbyists will want to feed this species a diet based on vegetable and plant matter in the form of a high quality vegetable based flake or pellet food along with naturally occurring algae growth within the aquarium. The egg spots in the anal fin of the male tend to be larger and more intense in colour than those of the female. There are very subtle differences between the males and females of this species.
Both sexes also display egg spots on the anal fin with the males again having brighter more sharply defined coloration. Cichlidae cichlids subfamily.
