Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kasola Island

kah-SOH-lah EYE-land (approx.)

The atlas records 11 collection-point forms from Kasola Island, across 5 genera.

8.2442°S 30.9793°E

Kasola Island is an island in Lake Tanganyika, off Tanzania's shore, under 1 km north-west of Kapumpuli.

Where it is

Kasola Island is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (340 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kapumpuli 0.4 mi south-east · Katani Point 0.6 mi north-west · Lwasase Bay 2.5 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: Mpulungu (south basin) (~59 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

Surface temperature here

Across Mar–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1615 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°78°81°84°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: 82 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 10 clear satellite daysMApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 26 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 140 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 308 clear satellite daysJJul: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 365 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 381 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 242 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 111 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (80 °F–82 °F), 20 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (6)–D
Surface temperature by month near Kasola Island — 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 site caption describes the island as a dive spot that acts as a wave breaker for the bay within.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Kasola Island, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd)

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.

Eretmodus (1)

Lepidiolamprologus (1)

Neolamprologus (6)

Ophthalmotilapia (2)

Telmatochromis (1)

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