Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Magambo Island

mah-GAHM-boh EYE-land (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Magambo Island.

5.9759°S 29.8405°E

Magambo Island (also called Kalela Island) is an island off Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, under 1 km north-north-west of Buhingu.

Where it is

Magambo Island is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (183 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Magambo 1.1 mi east · Siyeswe 1.8 mi south · Maswa 5.3 mi south

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) (~124 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 78 °F to 80 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (999 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

76°78°80°82°Jan: too few clear satellite days (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (2)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (9)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (5)–AMay: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 54 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (78 °F–80 °F), 203 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 292 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 252 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 136 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 37 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (4)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (2)–D
Surface temperature by month near Magambo Island — 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 — Kalela (Magambo) Island, 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.

Tropheus (1)

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