PFK Articles: Etroplus canarensis - The shoaling cichlid

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Everyone knows that cichlids are found in South America, Central America and Africa, but there is also a group of cichlids that occur on the other side of the world – the Asian genus Etroplus.

While the diversity of cichlids in Africa and the Americas is pretty vast, with probably over 1000 species in Lake Malawi alone, the Asian Etroplus haven’t radiated as much and there are only three species known. Two of these, the Orange chromide, E. maculatus, and the Green chromide, E. suratensis, are relatively easy to obtain in the shops here, but the third species, the Canara pearlspot, or Banded chromide, E. canarensis is a much rarer find.



Matt Clarke explains how to keep and breed the rare and expensive Canara pearlspot, Etroplus canarensis - a shoaling cichlid from India.

Read more about this species here.

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