Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Lupote Rocks

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The atlas records 4 collection-point forms from Lupote Rocks, across 4 genera.

7.7401°S 30.7512°E

Lupote Rocks is a rock formation on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, under 1 km south-west of Lupote Bay.

Where it is

Lupote Rocks is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (305 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Lupote Bay 0.2 mi north-east · Mtego Bay 2.7 mi south · Kisi Island 2.9 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) (~120 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 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 (1357 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 (2)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (7)–MApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–83 °F), 15 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 98 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 271 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 342 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 320 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 207 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 72 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 17 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Lupote 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 — Lupote 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.

Cyphotilapia (1)

Lamprologus (1)

Neolamprologus (1)

Tropheus (1)

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