Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Ninde

NEEN-deh (approx.)

The atlas records 5 collection-point forms from Ninde, across 4 genera.

7.6924°S 30.7237°E

Ninde is a collection point on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, under 1 km north-west of Kasali Bay.

Where it is

Ninde is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (301 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Kilingwe Point 0.6 mi north · Kisi Island 0.9 mi south-east · Pinga Point 2.9 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) (~126 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 (1350 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 (3)–JFeb: too few clear satellite days (2)–FMar: too few clear satellite days (8)–MApr: 81 °F mean (79 °F–83 °F), 14 clear satellite daysAMay: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 100 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 266 clear satellite daysJJul: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 341 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 316 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (77 °F–80 °F), 207 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 75 clear satellite daysONov: 80 °F mean (80 °F–81 °F), 15 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (3)–D
Surface temperature by month near Ninde — 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: Ninde

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.

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