Lake Malawi Cichlids
MalawiCichlid is a personal website dedicated to the Cichlids of Lake Malawi.
It provides lots of information and a large amount of imagery. The random images displayed are © Copyright and used with permission.
I have been keeping & breeding Malawi Cichlids for 20 years and have enjoyed every minute of it. Back in February 2002 I created my first website enabling me to share my hobby. All photographs found on this website are used with permission. The three images used below are Copyright Cichlid Recipe
Cichlids and the Great Lakes
Twisting down the two arms of the Great Rift Valley, the Eastern Rift Valley and Western (or Albertine) Rift Valley, one finds some of the oldest, largest and deepest lakes in the world. These include the 3 largest lakes in Africa, Victoria, Tanganyika and Malawi as well as lakes Turkana, Albert, Edward, Kivu and several others.
The Lakes are important habitats for a number of fish and amphibian species, abundant birdlife and numerous crocodiles. The Rift Valley lakes are world-renowned for the diversity of cichlid fish species.
Cichlids are perch-like fishes that occur only in tropical and subtropical freshwaters. The family contains more species than any other fish family about 800 species of cichlids live in the African Rift lakes, with many more species yet to be discovered. Introduced Nile perch and overfishing have led to the decrease of many cichlid species in Lake Victoria. Read more about the endangered Victorian Cichlids or Tanganyikan Cichlids
