Aquarist Atlas
Collection point · Lake Tanganyika · Tanzania

Nkonkonti Point

n-kohn-KOHN-tee POYNT (approx.)

The atlas records 3 collection-point forms from Nkonkonti Point, across 2 genera.

8.2890°S 31.0121°E

Nkonkonti Point is a point on Tanzania's Lake Tanganyika shore, about 1 km west-south-west of Nkonkonti Bay.

Where it is

Nkonkonti Point is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (343 mi south of the lake's northern tip).

Nearest collection points: Nkonkonti Bay 0.7 mi east · Nakiwumbu Rocks 1.4 mi north-west · Lwasase Bay 1.6 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) (~53 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m

Surface temperature here

Across Mar–Nov, monthly means run 76 °F to 82 °F — coolest in Jul. Measured by satellite 1995–2023: the daily median of clear readings within 10 km of the site (1611 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 (5)–FMar: 82 °F mean (81 °F–83 °F), 10 clear satellite daysMApr: 81 °F mean (80 °F–82 °F), 26 clear satellite daysAMay: 79 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 143 clear satellite daysMJun: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 303 clear satellite daysJJul: 76 °F mean (75 °F–78 °F), 363 clear satellite daysJAug: 77 °F mean (76 °F–78 °F), 379 clear satellite daysASep: 78 °F mean (76 °F–80 °F), 247 clear satellite daysSOct: 80 °F mean (78 °F–81 °F), 107 clear satellite daysONov: 81 °F mean (80 °F–82 °F), 20 clear satellite daysNDec: too few clear satellite days (6)–D
Surface temperature by month near Nkonkonti Point — 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.

The site

Mpando Point is visible to the south from the site, and a 2008 photograph of an African Diving Ltd team there also shows Katili and Mpando Point in the distance.

Sources
  1. tanganyika.si — Nkonkonti Point, Lake Tanganyika, Tanzania: location page and photo gallery (captions by African Diving Ltd)

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.

Neolamprologus (2)

Shuja (1)

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