Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Bulombora

boo-lohm-BOH-rah (approx.)

The atlas records 4 collection-point forms from Bulombora, across 4 genera.

5.0369°S 29.7883°E

Bulombora is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, near Masaka Point.

Where it is

Bulombora is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (118 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Masaka Point (Bulombora) 1.2 mi west · Kaseke 2.4 mi north-west · Moyobozi 3 mi south

Shore, third and distances are measured from the coordinates above against the lake’s mapped outline.

The water

Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Tanganyika — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature77–80.6 °F25–27 °C
pH8.6–9.2alkaline
Hardnesshard · 600–690 µS/cm

Nearest measured station: Kigoma (central, east shore) (~25 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

This site

Habitatrockyrocky coast near Masaka Point

Surface temperature here

Across May–Oct, monthly means run 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (732 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (3)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (3)–AMay: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 36 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 127 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 222 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 200 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 96 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–81 °F), 35 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (4)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Bulombora — dot = mean, bar = typical range (10th–90th percentile), “–” = too cloudy to measure.

Temperature: ESA Climate Change Initiative, Lakes_cci v3.0 (Asfour et al. 2026; doi:10.5285/a56dba09df8a42ec9fba8b8c7a5e1f69). Chemistry on this page remains the lake's own.

The site

A caption describes rocky coast at the site.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Bulombora, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by Pam Chin)

Each entry below is the population of that species recorded here — the form aquarists keep and breed as a distinct, provenance-labelled line. Crossing forms from different collection points is considered hybridisation in the hobby.

Cyphotilapia (1)

Julidochromis (1)

Tropheus (1)

Xenotilapia (1)

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