Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Katoba Rock

kah-TOH-bah ROK (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Katoba Rock.

7.0622°S 30.5578°E

Katoba Rock is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, at African Diving Fish Station, under 1 km north of Kanchui Bay.

Where it is

Katoba Rock is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (258 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Udachi 0.6 mi north · Kabwe 1.4 mi north · Msalaba 4.8 mi south-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) (~198 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatrockywave-washed surge zone at African Diving Fish Station

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 77 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1198 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 (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (6)–MApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 13 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 79 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 226 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 308 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 290 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 188 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 66 clear satellite daysONov: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 13 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (2)–D
Surface temperature by month near Katoba Rock — 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

Captions describe Katoba Rock as a turbulent, wave-washed surge zone, with a beach leading up to the rock, an elevated area overlooking Kanchui Bay, and Cape Mpimbwe visible in the distance.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Katoba Rock, 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)

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