Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · DR Congo

Mwerazi

m-weh-RAH-zee (approx.)

The atlas records 1 collection-point form from Mwerazi.

7.4296°S 30.1942°E

Mwerazi is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's DR Congo shore, under 1 km south of Mwerazi River.

Where it is

Mwerazi is on the western shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (283 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kizike 2.6 mi north · Kalubamba 3.4 mi north · Bwasa 4.3 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: Mpulungu (south basin) (~179 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

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 (1218 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 (2)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (4)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (4)–MApr: 81 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 11 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 82 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 248 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 330 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 297 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–79 °F), 166 clear satellite daysSOct: 79 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 61 clear satellite daysONov: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 12 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (1)–D
Surface temperature by month near Mwerazi — 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: Mwerazi

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.

Tropheus (1)

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