Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Mbofula Points

m-boh-FOO-lah POH-eents (approx.)

The atlas records 2 collection-point forms from Mbofula Points.

7.5339°S 30.6066°E

Mbofula Points is a point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, about 10 km south of Kipili.

Where it is

Mbofula Points is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (291 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: File Bay 2.1 mi north-west · Kisambala 2.4 mi south-east · Ngosa Point 3.5 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) (~147 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

This site

Habitatrockythree strips of land project into the lake

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 (1272 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 (1)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (2)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (8)–MApr: 81 °F mean (80 °F–83 °F), 13 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 93 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 246 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 324 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 304 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 195 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 69 clear satellite daysONov: 80 °F mean (79 °F–82 °F), 15 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (2)–D
Surface temperature by month near Mbofula Points — 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.

The site

Three strips of land project into the lake here, forming a rocky habitat; the site is described as the northernmost point where Neolamprologus cf. modestus occurs.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Mbofula Points, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd)

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.

Neolamprologus (2)

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