A young male Tropheops sp "yellow chin" below:

A variety of Tropheops males below. Note the difference in color pattern between these males. This is NOT a mood based color change, it is very much that each individual Tropheops has a slightly different color and pattern. Some are considerably more yellow than others and some show a distinct checkerboard barring and others show no barring at all. The Tropheops have a very nasty reputation as a very aggressive mbuna. I have not found this to be true for this variety (at least in my setup) however the Tropheops "red top chilumba" I had was an accomplished killer.

Tropheops females below. I can tell that two or three of them are male and I can tell that two of them are female but the rest are colored somewhere in between. See the definate females below:

I bought ten 1.25" Tropheops sp "yellow chin" at the ACA convention in Cincinnati in July of 2003. They have grown very quickly in my 180 gallon tank. I believe that Tropheops used to be a subgenus to Pseudotropheus but has been elevated to genus status and the Pseudotropheus has been dropped. The seller was Midwest cichlids out of Iowa.

The Tropheops spend their lives tilted at a 45º angle picking at the rocks.

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