• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Home
  • Bettas 101
    • Acclimation
    • All About Water
      • Nitrogen Cycle
      • Ph & Ammonia
      • Water Changes
    • Betta Fish Anatomy
    • Betta Vases
    • Choosing a Tank
    • Feeding Bettas
      • Food Myths
      • Frozen & Live Betta Food
    • Tankmates for Bettas
      • African Dwarf Frogs & Bettas
      • Apple Snails & Bettas
      • Neon Tetras & Bettas
      • Otocinclus Catfish & Bettas
      • Quarantine New Fish
    • Plakat Betta
    • Rosetail Betta
    • Veil-tail Betta
  • Sick Betta
    • Diseases and Treatment
    • Aging Bettas
    • Bloating and Constipation
    • Cotton Wool Disease
    • Dropsy
    • Fin Rot and Fin Loss
    • First Steps
    • Gill Hyperplasia
    • Ich
    • Popeye
    • Septicemia (Infection)
    • Swim Bladder Disorder
    • Sick Betta Symptom Checker
    • Velvet Disease
    • Wounded Betta
    • Fish Tank Granuloma
  • Behavior
    • Bubble Nests
    • Skittish Bettas
    • Tail Biting
  • Breeding Bettas
  • Equipment
  • Q & A
  • Other fish
  • Contact

Fish Care

Everything You Need to Know About Betta Fish

You are here: Home / Breeding Bettas / Other fish / The Princess of Burundi (Neolamprologus brichardi)

The Princess of Burundi (Neolamprologus brichardi)

Neolamprologus brichardi

This beautiful fish with its lyre-tail was once known as ‘The Princess of Burundi.’    It comes from the Burundi area of Lake Tanganyika. The fish was first introduced to North America in 1971 by Pierre Brichard. The males can grow to five inches and the females to three inches. They thrive in water between 76ş-82ş F. They do very well in hard water. These fish are monagomous and pair for life. They will tend their eggs and spawn for several months, and will watch over several spawns at a time.

I keep mine in a 25 gallon tall tank. The bottom is gravel three inches deep. My summer home is on Lake Erie. I brought home some pieces of pre-Cambrian shield rock and stacked them in one corner of the tank. The pair that I had immediately made this area their home. After about a month they excavated their corner by digging all the gravel out from under the rocks. They hollowed out an area five by eight inches. They took every piece of gravel out and left themselves a bare glass bottom. The female laid her eggs on the rock on the side of the cave. The eggs hatched and I had at least fifty young. I left them in the tank and they raised them, with twenty surviving. This was my first success with brichardi.

I was told that the couple will only breed again when the nest is vacated. I purposely filled the nest back in with gravel and left ten of their young in the tank. About six months later the nest was dug out again and the adult couple let four of the ten youngsters stay in the new nest with them. I should mention that the young fish are about one and half inches long. The other six were banished to the opposite side of the tank. The couple are now guarding two hatches of fry that appear to be about three weeks apart in age. I would guess that there are about seventy fry.

I feed my fish an assortment of flake and pellet foods, as well as frozen blood worms and brine shrimp. I found my fish all started breeding when I started using earth worm flake food, which I obtained at the Brampton Aquarium Club auction.

I highly recommend this fish to everyone, especially beginners, as it is easily bred and a beautiful fish.


Filed Under: Other fish Tagged With: Neolamprologus brichardi

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Search


Recent Posts

  • Cool Betta Fish Tank Ideas
  • How Long Do Betta Fish Live For? – 5 Helpful Tips For a Long and Happy Life
  • 3 Gallon Fish Tank for Betta
  • 10 Gallon Aquarium Stands and Cabinets
  • How Much Do Betta Fish Cost to Buy and Care For?

NippyFish Facebook Page

Visit the NippyFish Facebook Page

Featured Posts

Complete Guide to Betta Fish Diseases and Treatment

This complete guide on Betta fish illnesses and diseases from A-Z will help you pinpoint what is wrong with your Betta and how to treat it.

The 4 Most Common Signs of Illness in Betta Fish

This article focuses on the 4 most common signs of illness in Betta fish.

Betta Fish Tank Setup – A Detailed Guide For Beginners

This article will be providing a detailed beginners guide on how to setup a tank for your Betta fish.

Top 12 Betta Fish Toys

This article has a list of some of our favorite Betta fish toys. Don’t have a bored Betta.

Setup an Aquatic Plant Environment For Your Betta

Having a healthy plant in your tank will help to improve the water quality by filtering out waste and removing some of the CO2 that’s produced by your fish.

Copyright © 2025 All Rights Reserved | NippyFish | Privacy Policy

Nippyfish.net is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.