What is your favorite African Cichlid Lake?

What is your favorite African Cichlid Lake and why?


Lake Malawi
Lake Victoria
Lake Tanganyika

lol...Tangs rules!

Lake Tanganyika is the best lake. Haave been tp all three. Lake Victoria is now ruled by the Nile Perch. It was introduced as a food fish.

tang!!!!!!!! all the way

I am all alone right now with MALAWI!!!!!!

i like both malawi and tang but i voted for malawi lol

There we go now we got 3 votes for Malawi, I dont feel so alone anymore. All the lakes are great tho IMO

micahsutton wrote:

There we go now we got 3 votes for Malawi, I dont feel so alone anymore. All the lakes are great tho IMO

you got 4 malawi looks beautifull

fishman13218 wrote:

Lake Tanganyika is the best lake. Haave been tp all three. Lake Victoria is now ruled by the Nile Perch. It was introduced as a food fish.

wish I could make that trip. Must have been nice. A bunch of the vics are on the redlist .. Is that due to the flood of the pirahna?

milawi ,

We have a few post and votes but not to many people explained why? More votes. :)

I voted for Victoria because I figured everyone else will vote for the other lakes. Plus, I dont know my cichlids very well.

There's nothing like Malawi's male colors.

since i have a Lake Tanganyika set up right now i will go with that

Lake Victoria, those fish need our help the most! A good majority of the cichlids that are from there only exist in aquariums now due to the Nile perch. We need to heep them alive for the hope of reintroducing them later.

Dang Nike Perch! If I could catch you guys I would eat you!

Fern wrote:

Lake Victoria, those fish need our help the most! A good majority of the cichlids that are from there only exist in aquariums now due to the Nile perch. We need to heep them alive for the hope of reintroducing them later.

Thanks Fern for backing me up!

I love vics, I only have 2 kinds so far though..... Need to get more

Victorian males get the award for the most color on one fish... but most look very similar with some variations on placement of color...

Malawi peacocks are very similar in size and shape...their colors are what differentiates them apart....same story with Mbuna.

Tanganyikans have the most different morphologies, from Brichardi to Calvus to Leulupi to Frontosas...all have diferent structures, size, colors and shape.

Take a silhouette of any fish from any lake...and I bet it would be hard to tell one Peacock/Mbuna/Victorian from another.... show me the silhouette of a Tang...and I bet it's a helluvalot easier to differentiate.

That's why I picked Tanganyika... even though all my tanks are loaded with Mbuna. lol

Good post hong. I like the tangs also.

I haven't gotten into the Africans yet, I stated with South Americans like most beginners. But tangs have been the fish I've started looking at the most. So that's my vote for now......

Fern wrote:

Lake Victoria, those fish need our help the most! A good majority of the cichlids that are from there only exist in aquariums now due to the Nile perch. We need to heep them alive for the hope of reintroducing them later.

I agree. Vics need our help.

dallas1scholar wrote:

I haven't gotten into the Africans yet, I stated with South Americans like most beginners. But tangs have been the fish I've started looking at the most. So that's my vote for now......

Africans are the shizzz