My experience with Lake Mweru species began in August 2018 when the NECA worked with Oliver Lucanus to bring in a shipment of fish from this lake. I was lucky enough to end up with groups of wild Serranochromis stappersi and Tilapia sparmannii from this initial shipment. With a subsequent shipment a couple months later I was also able to obtain additional wild groups which were named at the time as Serranochromis macrocephalus and Psuedocrenilabrus pyrrhocaudalis. With th

My initial experience with Lake Barombi Mbo cichlids dates back to 1997, just after Aquatic Promotions featured an article in the July 1997 edition of Cichlid News magazine. Coincidentally at the same time, still a pleasant surprise to me all these years later, a local fish store in Pittsfield, MA had one adult Stomatepia pindu available in their tanks. No knock against any local fish stores in western Massachusetts, inclusive of Pittsfield, but encountering such an oddball