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Shelldwelling Cichlids
Shells for shelldwelling Cichlids
Fischhaus Zepkow: www.mollusc-shells.com
Surely it would be preferable to offer exactly the same shells to the Cichlids they inhabitate in Lake Tanganyika or Malawi. But because these shells are not available for us, we have to be content with the second best solution and try to find fitting shells for the different species in our pisciculture. In our tanks, we prefer the solid marine shells because the often used shells of the grapevine snail (Helix pomatia) are very thin and disintegrate relatively fast in water.
The table shows a list of shells we found useful for the differnt species of shelldwelling Cichlids from Lake Tanganyika; we don't keep the Malawi species, so for them we used our best guess.
In case you want to order the shells you can do so in our shop.
Cichlid | Shell |
Altolamprologus compressiceps Sumbu | Melongena corona, Melongena melongena |
Altolamprologus compressiceps | Melongena patula |
Altolamprologus calvus | Melongena patula |
Lamprologus boulengeri | Rapana rapiformis Tonna dolium, galea, sulcosa Turbo petholatus (lg), Turbo marmoratus (sm) |
Lamprologus kungweensis | Babylonia areolata, spirata, zeylanica possibly Helix pomatia possibly Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Lamprologus meeli | Rapana rapiformis Tonna dolium, galea, sulcosa Turbo petholatus (lg), Turbo marmoratus (sm) |
Lamprologus meleagris | possibly Achatina fulica, Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Lamprologus ocellatus | possibly Achatina fulica, Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Lamprologus ornatipinnis | possibly Achatina fulica, Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Lamprologus signatus | Babylonia areolata, spirata, zeylanica possibly Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Lamprologus speciosus | possibly Achatina fulica, Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Neolamprologus brevis | Achatina fulica, Helix pomatia Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Neolamprologus multifasciatus | Babylonia areolata, spirata, zeylanica Helix pomatia, Natica vitellus Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Neolamprologus similis | Babylonia areolata, spirata, zeylanica Helix pomatia, Natica vitellus Turbo argyrostomus, chrysostomus, petholatus, reevei |
Pseudotropheus lanisticola | Rapana rapiformis possibly Tonna dolium, galea, sulcosa (smaller shell) possibly Turbo marmoratus |
Pseudotropheus livingstoni | Melongena patula possibly Tonna dolium, galea, sulcosa (larger shell) |
Should there be any questions or suggestions, please contact us and let us know.
