Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Katani Point

kah-TAH-nee POYNT (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Katani Point.

8.2375°S 30.9750°E

Katani Point is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, under 1 km north-north-west of Kasola Island.

Where it is

Katani Point is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (339 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kasola Island 0.6 mi south-east · Kapumpuli 1 mi south-east · Singa Island 2.1 mi north-west

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) (~60 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatintermediaterocky near-shore, mostly intermediate at depth

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 (1618 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 (80 °F–82 °F), 24 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 142 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 308 clear satellite daysJJul: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 366 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 382 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 243 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 111 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (81 °F–82 °F), 20 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (6)–D
Surface temperature by month near Katani Point — 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

Site captions describe the habitat here as rocky, extending to a depth of about 32 metres, with much of it an intermediate type of habitat.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Katani Point, 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.

Julidochromis (1)

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