In this episode, we are going to visit the most professional breeding farm of African Cichlids in Taiwan.  Yuan Shan Ornamental Fish Farm is a cichlid breeding farm, located in Yanpu Township, Pingtung.  It mainly produces African Cichlid and partial Taiwanese local Gobiidae; over 100 kinds are kept on the farm. Unique and high-priced African Cichlid is its main product.  The farm owner does not take mass production as the main purpose, but takes diversity in small quantities as a way to maintain its advantages such as high quality and competitiveness; he also adopts a natural ecological breeding method to reduce the use of drugs and completely avoid using hormone feed, thereby decreasing the impact on the natural environment.


Farm info:

YS Fish Farm


Product list:

  • Aulonocara chitande "Nkatha Bay" yellow head
  • Aulonocara ethelwynnae
  • Aulonocara maylandi
  • Aulonocara rostratum
  • Aulonocara sp. "Stuartgranti maleri"
  • Aulonocara stuartgranti "Ngara"
  • Aulonocara stuartgranti "Usisya"
  • Copadichromis sp. "Mbenji blue"
  • Cynotilapia afra "Jalo Reef"
  • Cyphotilapia frontosa
  • Exochochromis anagenys yellow
  • Fossorochromis rostratus
  • Labeotropheus fuelleborni "Chovya"
  • Labeotropheus fuelleborni "Katale"
  • Labeotropheus fuelleborni "Mbenji"
  • Labeotropheus trewavasae "Chidunga" Red top
  • Labeotropheus trewavasae "Chilumba"
  • Labidochromis sp. "Hongi" Red type
  • Labidochromis sp. "Perlmutt"
  • Lethrinops sp. "Yellow collar" Lions cove
  • Melanochromis cyaneorhabdos "Maingano"
  • Metriaclima Fainzilberi "Hongi Island"
  • Metriaclima sp. "Daktari" Hai Reef
  • Mylochromis lateristriga "Climate reef"
  • Nyassachromis prostoma
  • Otopharynx tetraspilus
  • Otopharynx tetrastigma
  • Petrochromis ephippium Moshi yellow
  • Petrochromis macrognathus Kasanga
  • Placidochromis phenochilus "Mdoka white lips"
  • Placidochromis sp. "Jalo"
  • Placidochromis sp. gold "Mbamba bay"
  • Protomelas fenestratus "Nkanda" Yellow belly
  • Protomelas sp. "Spilonotus Tanzania"
  • Protomelas sp. "Steveni Taiwan" Taiwan Reef
  • Pseudotropheus sp. "hajomaylandi Pombo" Ndumb
  • Pseudotropheus sp. "polit"
  • Pseudotropheus sp. "Williamsi North"
  • Pseudotropheus sp. dolphin Manda "giant demasoni"
  • Pseudotropheus sp. Kingsizei "Lupingu"
  • Pseudotropheus sp. kingsizei north "Nkanda"
  • Pseudotropheus zebra "Maison Reef"
  • Pseudotropheus zebra Sunrise "Mbamba Bay"
  • Rhamphochromis longiceps
  • Taeniolethrinops praeorbitalis
  • Tropheus brichardi namansi fiery fry
  • Tropheus duboisi
  • Tropheus sp. "mpimbwe" Korongwe yellow cheek

Keyword: Cichlid, African cichlid, Lake Malawi, Lake Tanganyika, Haplochromine, Mbuna, Peacocks, Gobiidae, No hormone