Collection point · Lake Malawi · Malawi
Chilungo Bay, Chizumulu Island
chee-LOON-goh BAY chee-zoo-MOO-loo EYE-land (approx.)
The atlas records 3 collection-point forms from Chilungo Bay, Chizumulu Island, across 3 genera.
Chilungo Bay is a bay on Chizumulu Island, a Malawian island in Mozambican waters of Lake Malawi.
The water
Lake-wide measured chemistry of Lake Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.
Temperature75.2–84.2 °F24–29 °C
pH8.2–8.6alkaline
Hardnessmoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppm
Conductivity≈250–260 µS/cmmeasured range
Sources
- malawi.si — Chilungo Bay, Chizumulu Island, Lake Malawi, Malawi: location page and photo gallery (captions by Pete Barnes)
- Konings, A. (2016). Malawi Cichlids in their Natural Habitat, 5th Edition. Cichlid Press, El Paso.
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.