FASCINATING FISH
Silvia’s cichlid
Pelvicachromis silviae
Looking for an easy to spawn project that isn’t ‘just’ another mainstream fish? Why not try the Yellow krib, writes Liam Roberts.
LIAM ROBERTS
When not working at Finest Aquatics, Liam is tending to his many ongoing breeding projects in his fish house.
WHAT SPRINGS to mind when I say West Africa? Regional unrest from rival crime lords? Isolated tribes who haven't been contacted in decades? Untouched jungles, full of life? For us fish keepers, maybe the Congo. But there’s so much more to West Africa, such as a charming dwarf cichlid from the Niger River system.
The is Pelvicachromis silviae, and Silvia is the lady this particular cichlid is named after, the wife of Austrian ichthyologist and West African fish expert Anton Lamboj.