Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Katibili

kah-tee-BEE-lee (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Katibili.

6.0781°S 29.1976°E

Katibili is a collection point on DR Congo's Lake Tanganyika shore, under 1 km south-south-west of Katibili Bay.

Where it is

Katibili is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (190 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kalemie 11 mi north · Kasenge Bay 27 mi north-east · Kibige Island 29 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) (~142 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 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 (816 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

75°77°79°81°Jan: too few clear satellite days (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (2)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (2)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (4)–AMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 42 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 169 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 262 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 212 clear satellite daysASep: 77 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 89 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–81 °F), 30 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (2)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Katibili — 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: Katibili

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.

Lepidiolamprologus (1)

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