The study of the whole lake area began only in the 1930s in the course of an expedition of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the Research Institute of Freshwater Fisheries of the USSR.

[5] In seasons of heavy rainfall the level of the Tsipikan rises and overflows its banks, reaching the lakes.

[4] Aquatic plants such as Potamogeton, Myriophyllum and longroot smartweed grow in shallow areas of the lake system in the summer.

Amphipods, chironomid and caddis larvae, as well as crustaceans, gastropods, and bivalve molluscs inhabit the bottom of the lake.

[6] Other fish species living in the waters of the Kapylyushi are perch, pike, ruffe, burbot, spiny loach, lake minnow and Alpine bullhead.