Wood-Yellow Cichlid TB

This trackable has the goal to circulate more than five years and to be moved by more than 25 cachers. That is a rate of five drops per year for five years, or a drop every 73 days.  As of 12-Apr-21 it had survived for 4.1 years and had been moved by 13 cachers, for an average release every 115 days.

No permission is needed to leave the U.S.  While in the U.S., please drop it in a Premium Member only OR a rural cache near a busy trail or road. Do not place it in an urban cache or abandon it at a caching event where there is no security.  Transport the bug in the original plastic bag for as long as the bag lasts; the bag keeps the trackable clean, protects the number and prevents tangling with other items.  Otherwise, take the trackable anywhere you wish.

I am always alert for items I can convert to travel bugs.  This is one of a small series of painted, wooden, generic fish-shaped cutouts to which I have attached a tag.  Each TB of the series is named for a freshwater aquarium fish of the same color as the wood fish.  An image of a live fish can be seen elsewhere on the TB page.

The Yellow African Cichlid is also known as the Yellow Lab. Considered a newer species and referred to commercially as Labidochromis tanganicae.  This fish lives in the waters of Lake Malawi between the islands of Charo and Mbowe. First displayed at Burundi in the early 1980's and exported from there, the Yellow Cichlid was mistakenly believed to come from Lake Tanganyika.  Mature specimens flaunt contrasting horizontal black stripes and vertical bars to provide additional visual interest.