Collection point · Lake Malawi · Tanzania

Manda

MAHN-dah (approx.)

The atlas records 26 collection-point forms from Manda, across 14 genera.

10.4534°S 34.5874°E

Manda is a beach and bay on Lake Malawi's Tanzanian shore, about 2 km east-northeast of Manda Point.

Where it is

Manda is on the eastern shore of Lake Malawi, in its northern third (68 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Lutara Reef 1.9 mi north-west · Ndumbi Point 11 mi south · Ndumbi Reef 12 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 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: Salima (south-east shore) (~367 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm

Surface temperature here

Across May–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 81 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (897 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.

Surface temperature by month near Manda — 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

malawi.si — Manda, Lake Malawi, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by Mark Thomas)

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.