Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Malawi · Malawi

Liwewe Reef

lee-WEH-weh REEF (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Liwewe Reef.

13.7643°S 34.9104°E

Liwewe Reef is a reef off Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, about 3 km west of Luwala Reef.

Where it is

Liwewe Reef is in open water about 2.5 mi off the eastern shore, in the southern third of Lake Malawi (296 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Luwala Reef 1.8 mi east · Chitedze Rock 2.6 mi north-east · Chimwalani Reef 3.5 mi 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 Malawi — collection points share their lake's water; site-specific figures are shown only where the literature records them.

Temperature75.2–84.2 °F24–29 °C
pH8.2–8.6alkaline
Hardnessmoderately soft, alkaline, well-buffered79 ppm
Conductivity≈250–260 µS/cmmeasured range

Nearest measured station: Monkey Bay (south basin) (~28 km) — Visibility (Secchi) 12.5 m

Surface temperature here

Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 75 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1460 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

73°76°79°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (1)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (3)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (8)–MApr: 79 °F mean (76 °F–81 °F), 39 clear satellite daysAMay: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 158 clear satellite daysMJun: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 215 clear satellite daysJJul: 75 °F mean (74 °F–76 °F), 232 clear satellite daysJAug: 75 °F mean (74 °F–76 °F), 286 clear satellite daysASep: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 293 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–82 °F), 150 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (78 °F–83 °F), 68 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (7)–D
Surface temperature by month near Liwewe Reef — 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. malawi.si — Lake Malawi interactive locations map: Liwewe Reef

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.

Aulonocara (1)

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