Ndumbi Rocks
n-DOOM-bee ROKS (approx.)
The atlas records 16 collection-point forms from Ndumbi Rocks, across 11 genera.
12.0267°S 34.7356°E
Ndumbi Rocks is a rocky site on Lake Malawi's Malawian shore, under 1 km north-east of Makulawe Point.
Where it is
Ndumbi Rocks is in open water about 6.2 mi off the eastern shore, in the central third of Lake Malawi (176 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Yofu Bay 1.1 mi south · Mbako Point 1.1 mi south-east · Mbako Bay 1.6 mi south-east
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.
Nearest measured station: Salima (south-east shore) (~195 km) — Conductivity 235 µS/cm
This site
Surface temperature here
Across Apr–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Aug. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1253 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.
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.