Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Kisimba Rocks

kee-SEEM-bah ROKS (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Kisimba Rocks.

7.9302°S 30.8356°E

Kisimba Rocks is a rock formation on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, under 1 km west of Katenge.

Where it is

Kisimba Rocks is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (318 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kanena Point 1.2 mi south · Namlimba Point 1.6 mi north · Fulwe Rocks 1.9 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) (~97 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatrockyrock formation on the lake shore

Surface temperature here

Across Mar–Nov, monthly means run 77 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1488 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 (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (3)–FMar: 82 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 10 clear satellite daysMApr: 81 °F mean (80 °F–83 °F), 22 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 123 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 290 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 356 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 347 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 220 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 87 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (80 °F–82 °F), 25 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (2)–D
Surface temperature by month near Kisimba Rocks — 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 — Kisimba Rocks, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery

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.

Cyathopharynx (1)

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