Collection point · Lake Malawi · Tanzania
Magunga
mah-GOON-gah (approx.)
The atlas records 33 collection-point forms from Magunga, across 18 genera.
Magunga is a collection point at Magunga Bay on Lake Malawi's Tanzanian shore; the malawi.si location page shows the bay with Magunga Reef (Rocks).
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
This site
Habitatrockybay on the Tanzanian shore with a rock 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.