Udachi
oo-DAH-chee (approx.)
Also traded as “Udachi (Golden Kushangaza)”
The atlas records 12 collection-point forms from Udachi, across 9 genera.
7.0544°S 30.5573°E
Udachi lies on Lake Tanganyika's Tanzanian shore, under 1 km south-east of Udachi Bay, adjacent to what captions call the African Diving Fish Station.
Where it is
Udachi is on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika, in its southern third (257 mi south of the lake's northern tip).
Nearest collection points: Katoba Rock 0.6 mi south · Kabwe 0.9 mi north · Msalaba 5.2 mi south-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.
Nearest measured station: Mpulungu (south basin) (~199 km) — Temperature 24.5 °C · pH 8.9 · Conductivity 662 µS/cm · Visibility (Secchi) 11.9 m
This site
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 (1197 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 caption describes Udachi Point as a large, mostly submerged rocky habitat where Neolamprologus sp. "Eseki" was discovered in 1990, and where Tropheus "Golden Kushangaza" — a colour form of T. sp. "Mpimbwe" described with an irregular yellow-and-black pigmentary anomaly — was found the same year by African Diving co-worker Yusuph Maridadi.
Other captions place Udachi Village here, with the village of Kabwe visible in the background, and note an African Diving land survey trip that visited the point in 1988 while searching for a fish-collecting station site.
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.