Mucansi
moo-CAHN-see (approx.)
Also traded as “Muchansi”
The atlas records 7 collection-point forms from Mucansi, across 5 genera.
3.6919°S 29.3235°E
Mucansi is a dive site on Burundi's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 1 km north-north-east of Makombe.
Where it is
Mucansi is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its northern third (25 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Makombe 0.9 mi south · Nyaruhongoka 1.2 mi north · Magara 2.3 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.
Nearest measured station: North basin (Bujumbura / Uvira) (~25 km) — Temperature 25.8 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 659 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 8.7 m
Surface temperature here
Across 10 of 12 months, 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 (585 clear days). The rainy-season months are usually too cloudy to measure and are left blank.
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
A 1986 photograph of the site, taken from the road, shows considerably more vegetation than is there today.
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.