Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kamazile Bay

kah-mah-ZEE-leh BAY (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Kamazile Bay.

6.8422°S 30.4502°E

Kamazile Bay is a bay on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore.

Where it is

Kamazile Bay is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (243 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Karema 1.7 mi north-west · Kaswente Bay 2.8 mi south-east · Itinilo Rocks 5.5 mi south-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: Mpulungu (south basin) (~225 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Oct, monthly means run 77 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1225 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°78°81°Jan: too few clear satellite days (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (5)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (5)–MApr: 80 °F mean (78 °F–82 °F), 11 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 80 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 251 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 323 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 304 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 166 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 65 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (9)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Kamazile 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.

The site

A photo caption places Kamazile Village within the bay.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Kamazile Bay, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by Tautvydas Pangonis)

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.

Tropheus (1)

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