Nakantenga Island Lake Malawi Cichlids - Maleri islands - HD Underwater Footage
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Dive 2 was a abit short due to me being too excited and forgot to change out the GoPro battery! I didn't make that mistake twice.
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Nakantenga Island - Part of the Maleri islands
Maleri Islands Archipelago, also known as Marelli Islands group, consist of three islands: Maleri, the largest, is 168ha, Nankoma, 65ha and Nakantenga, 18ha. They are located opposite Senga Bay, 16km away from Salima Town and lie 3km from the shore in the remarkably clear waters of Lake Malawi.
The Maleri Islands are 3 of the 13 islands that fall under the protection of Lake Malawi National Park, the first fresh water National Park in the world. Due to the large array of habitat types present on the archipelago, varying from rocky shorelines to small wild sandy beaches and from wooden hill sides to reedy lagoons, Maleri Islands are home to a wide range of animals species. Several kinds of unique cichlid fish occur exclusively around these islands and cannot be found anywhere else in Lake Malawi or anywhere else in the world. This fish are sheltered in the rocky formations and protected by a 100m no-fishing area. Mammals include duikers, bush babies, otters and hippo on the mainland shores. Reptiles include mainly monitor lizards and snakes.
The islands are rich with bird life, with over 300 spices represented. Some common species are fish eagles, hornbills, herons, weavers, owls and kingfishers. The islands are also an important nesting areas for white-throated and long-tailed cormorants.
Common trees include adansonia digitata baobabs, brackystegia bussei, tamarind and fig trees.
The islands are of exceptional beauty, with the rift valley mountains as a backdrop, the Linthipe river-mouth's rich biodiversity on one side, the lively fishing villages, the northern coastline and a grand endless view of the lake to the north. All of the Islands are un-inhabited but Lake Malawi National Park Authorities have given special concession to Blue Zebra to developing its exclusive Lodge in order to support and maintain their conservation activities in this area. The Lodge itself is based on Nankoma Island.
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Scuba Diving Lake Malawi
Lake Malawi underwater footage
Scuba Diving Nakantenga Island
African Cichlids in the wild
Wild African Cichlids
Nakatenga Island
Maleri islands
Lake Malawi
Aristochromis,Astatotilapia,Aulonocara,Buccochromis,Chilotilapia,Copadichromis,Corematodus,Ctenopharynx,Cynotilapia,Dimidiochromis,Docimodus,Fossorochromis,Genyochromis,Hemitilapia,Labeotropheus,Labidochromis,Melanochromis,Metriaclima,Mylochromis,Naevochromis,Nimbochromis,Oreochromis,Otopharynx,Petrotilapia,Placidochromis,Protomelas,Pseudotropheus,Rhamphochromis,Sciaenochromis,Stigmatochromis,Trematocranus,Tropheops,Tyrannochromis
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I really hope you enjoy the footage and I hope KZread doesn't mess around with the quality too much. This is the start of many more video's coming your way. Cheers Marc
This is totally amazing. What an awesome experience it must have been. Thank you for taking and sharing this video! Totally awesome!
I absolutely love this Marc. Thank you soo much for sharing this amazing footage. By far the best way to get a real feel for what it actually looks like in Lake Malawi. Can't wait to see the rest. I will be adding this to my favorites.
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Many thanks J, I'm uploading all these videos for the people that might not get the chance to dive the Lake. Thanks for the kind words
This is so fascinating! I get to see similair cichlids to mine only in their natural environment. It kinda looks like a much less densely populated aquarium with giant rocks.
Unreal...my Nakatenga Red Tops are my top 3 favorite mbuna...love seeing them in their natural habitat. Killer Job Mate
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
And thank you for watching Marcus
I gotta said I watched like 4-5 time already this video marc and is awesome so relaxing it make me love more and grow more passion for cichlids. Thanks for sharing and keep it coming lol
How awsome is this to see them in there natural environment so many different types of cichlids blows my mind love these fish 🐟 so much!
Absolute stunning can't wait for the other videos
Just amazing footage Marc, really enjoyed it!!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
This is one of my favorite spots to dive in the Lake, of coarse this time the water was a bit turbid. This rocky area gently slopes to the bottom with occasional rocky ledges, bottom depth is around 100 feet. Fish are awesome and plentiful now with the addition or 'Ands' (Anti-netting devices) located around the island. Great video Marc!
So amazing! Even with visibility issues the bright fish still really stand ou. I like the neon blue mbuna at 7:00.
Amazing!!! Just great Marc! Thank you for sharing ! A real documentary footage!
Those red tops are so vibrant. Amazing footage. Thanks for sharing!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
My pleasure
The Pyrsonotos look so incredible. Pumped for the rest of the vids. Thanks!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
They dominated the shallows down to 9m at location 1
That Tropheops at 2:00 is gorgeous!
Great footage Marc! Looks like quite an adventure!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Cheers Brian. Hope all is well
Nice footage. You are lucky and blessed tonsee these fish in their natural habitat. I have those white ones but forget what they're calles.
Such an awesome video. Its crazy to me seeing the same species of fish in the wild that I have in my tank. Thanks so much for the footage!!!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
It really makes you think about how we keep them captivity.
This is a awesome video really enjoyed watching. Thanks for sharing!!!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
No worries. Thanks for watching.
I've added pictures of the locale and underwater here. africancichlidhub.com/forum/index.php?topic=14148.0
@garymcpherson7476
9 жыл бұрын
This is really a fun dive- I was curious to see their natural habitat- then I saw the "fish" the striped one he was focusing on light blue and dark coloring and another that just caught my eye at the 26:00 the was light blue very curio. as to what those are called. maybe add them to my tank...
OMG...AWSOME AND AT THE SAME TIME SPEACHLESS. ..IT'S AMAZING....WOULD LOVE TO TAKE YOUR PLACE JUST FOR A FEW MINUTES...BEAUTIFUL ADVENTURE...LUV IT
This is an amazing trip.
Awesome Video, thank you for sharing, I would love some of the Bright Blue Cichlids towards the beginning, any idea what they are (I want to say Electric Blues, but not sure)? I do already have a couple of the Blue Stripes with Yellow Fins! :)
Fantastic...nice video.
Very Nice Movie ! My Dream is , to Swim in the malawi lake too :D
awesome! What does a trip like this cost. maybe I want to do this in some years and take some fish home for in my tank.
Hey, might I ask you what fish you brought back home? I noticed in your previous video you said you would be sending some fish over to the lake...
Interesting watching them in their natural habitat
Marc, I've been waiting FOREVER for someone to post recent and long videos of Lake Malawi dives... please post some more long videos up soon from all of your dives! I wanna see all of the other locations and species of Malawi! PLEASE!
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
I'll be uploaded another 15 videos on the dive locations and similar length. I also have many other videos planned. Thanks for watching
@phile83084
9 жыл бұрын
African Cichlid Hub thank you Marc, absolutely amazing and alot of props to you for doing these dives and amazing videos! Can't wait!
heyy.. I wondered if anyone on here was good with advice.. in my tank I have about a million tiny bubbles that seem to always be in my tank they cause no harm to fish but you cant miss them theyre all over. . does anyone know why this may be? cheers
Nice. Some prober footage of the lake :D
What species is at 13:35 all yellow male and also the numerous BB Red Top, looks to be a Metriaclima of some sort?
@5:30 what is this fish? The blue and yellow one?
too awesome.
Beastmode to the max
Great video. What depths were you at? I'm guessing about 10 to 15 meters given how long you were underwater. Also, what was the water temperature where you were diving? Any noticeable temperature drop as you went deeper into the water?
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
I averaged a depth of 10m on these 2 dives. Water temp was 23c and there was pockets of warmer/cooler water at different depths. You can see me film my dive computer in the video.
Once again well done!!! nothing like a natural looking tanks... time to remove those plastic decorations! I needed your video clips to prove to me that there are no lighted taxicabs sunken in Lake Malawi! No matter what the guys say in the shop!
epic, what specie is the black aulonocara all over the place???
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Argentinosalx They will be the Metriaclima pyrsonotos females
Wow! I think it would be cool if you put an annotation on each kind of fish you come across, but I guess that would take a few weeks with a 50 minute video . lol
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
I'll work on time stamping the species I focused on.
@kellrayable
9 жыл бұрын
cool!
hey marc at the 42:20 mark was that a redcheek tropheops male?
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
That's "Lilac" buddy
No worries Marc, quality is pretty ok !!! Looks like your having a whale of a time.... boom boom :) sorry , Great vid Marc Those " red tops " ? and the yellow ones are stunningly bright even in the cloudy water :)
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
OZZYTHEOSCAR KZread is still processing the footage apparently? It took 15hrs to render as I uploaded a picture to my facebook account. Yes they're Metriaclima pyrsonotos. The weather (High Winds) really went to town on the Lake for over a week. Not all dives had bad viz like this.
@Les-OZZYTHEOSCAR
9 жыл бұрын
African Cichlid Hub Well it might say its still processing, but its up and being viewed my friend ! :)
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
OZZYTHEOSCAR KZread will still process a video after it's been uploaded and available to view ;p Just depends what settings the video was rendered in and the length of the video.
well now i know my rockscape is pretty accurate to the real thing... great vid!
@CJSAQUARIUMS
9 жыл бұрын
doesn't look like there is much algae on the rocks tho... interesting
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
CJ'S AQUARIUMS Not so much at this locale. But wait to you see the Taiwanee Reef video ;)
were you diving with kathy humbug? she told me about your story at the stuart grant wild caught cichlid centre and diving
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
I sure was! Dive buddies. And what story would that be? ;)
@laiyenma
9 жыл бұрын
she said that aha was diving with you and you were the owner of the cichlidhub, and i was like wait a sec, thats the forum i go on all the time , so i added you on fb as Ryan MA
THANK GOD FOR THE GREAT RIFT LAKES!!!!
Did you by chance test the water on your trip?
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
North Florida Cichlids That was one thing that i'll regret not doing. Had everything ready to take with me but I left it behind by mistake :|
@day2day734
9 жыл бұрын
That's too bad, maybe next time right ;)
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Most definitely! Thanks for watching
My DREAM! What is the average depth you need to dive to observe the best wildlife we have in our aquariums?
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
You can see an abundance of species at around 1m but I went down to around 22m.
wish I can capture those. The peacock cichlids at my local store are just to expansive
@twasbrillig33
8 жыл бұрын
+King Thao the lake is expansive, the fish are expensive =)
Truly amazing! Shame about the visibility. you should have uploaded the video in to smaller videos haha
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Haza wagadodo Can't please everyone. Most people want to expierence the whole dive. :)
@wagadodohg5626
9 жыл бұрын
Fair enough then :) was it filmed with a GoPro?
@AfricanCichlidHub
9 жыл бұрын
Haza wagadodo Yes, loads of details on my facebook page facebook.com/bolly12345
"Visibility was poor" if that was my lake I would cry. My lake looks like poop.
Auratus' are so funny, they're cruisin all over the place, in everybody's territory.