Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Burton Bay

BOO-rtohn BAY (approx.)

The atlas records 3 collection-point forms from Burton Bay, across 2 genera.

4.2910°S 29.1046°E

Burton Bay is a bay on Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo shore, about 3 km north-north-east of the Nemba River.

Where it is

Burton Bay is in open water about 2.5 mi off the eastern shore, in the northern third of Lake Tanganyika (66 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kiriza 11 mi north-east · Baraka 13 mi north · Kizinga 14 mi north-east

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) (~88 km) — Temperature 25.7 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 654 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 12.8 m

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 (429 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 (5)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (9)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (5)–AMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 17 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 58 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 114 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 115 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 70 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 25 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (4)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Burton Bay — 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.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Burton Bay

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.

Lamprologus (2)

Xenotilapia (1)

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