Aquatic Life

Diving in Lake Malawi is like exploring a giant aquarium!

Swimming along boulders on a rocky beach, snorkelling around an island or scuba diving in Lake Malawi, you will soon be engulfed by its "Cichlids" (pronounced sick-lids). Lake Malawi's Cichlids are among the most admired and sought after inhabitants of aquariums around the world.

Divers and snorkelers are fascinated and charmed by these mainly small but beautiful fish that occur in big numbers anywhere in the lake. The big variety of fish, their colours, patterns and stripes is staggering.

Lake Malawi contains over 1'000 species of Cichlids with more species found every time it is explored. Considering that this is more than all freshwater fish species found in North America and Europe together, this is an even more staggering number. Cichlids are found in South America and parts of Asia as well, but the African Great Lakes (Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganika & Lake Malawi) each contain more kinds of fish than any other lake on the planet.

Let me invite you to follow me into this still widely unexplored world of the Cichlids of Lake Malawi: Want to read more? Click here or visit our Gallery.

For more informatin on Cichlids, visit the following website