Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Mtotokainda Island

m-toh-toh-kah-EEN-dah EYE-land (approx.)

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

5.6496°S 29.3812°E

Mtotokainda Island is an island off DR Congo's Lake Tanganyika shore, under 1 km north-north-west of Mamba-Kayenda Island.

Where it is

Mtotokainda Island is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its central third (160 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Bilila (Kavala) Island 2.2 mi east · Milima Island 2.9 mi south · Mukindu 3.4 mi north

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) (~90 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 (737 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 (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (1)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (2)–MApr: too few clear satellite days (1)–AMay: 80 °F mean (79 °F–81 °F), 34 clear satellite daysMJun: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 144 clear satellite daysJJul: 78 °F mean (77 °F–79 °F), 239 clear satellite daysJAug: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 195 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 86 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 28 clear satellite daysONov: too few clear satellite days (5)–NDec: too few clear satellite days (0)–D
Surface temperature by month near Mtotokainda 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 — Lake Tanganyika interactive locations map: Mtotokainda Island

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.

Xenotilapia (1)

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