PETROCHROMIS
BREEDER
INTERVIEWS
Frank Schulterbrandt 4/22/2011
All of the following Petrochromis breeders in my opinion are accomplished petrochromis breeders. They have shown that they can
raise and breed many variants of petrochromis. They have also supplied advice through their experience on many different forums.
LEIGH KISSANE (ApexPredator from Cichlid Forum and Trophs.com)
GEORGE SETIABUDI (Geost from Trophs.com)
JOHN COWDER (Fshfrk from The Houston Fish Box)
MIKE MISURACO (Disc from Trophs.com)
ARTHUR
CARSTEN (THORLEIFDK from Trophs.com and WWW.youtube.com/user/THORLEIFDK)
1: What size aquarium do you prefer and what filtration/water movement do you have in that /those
tank(s) ?
2: What percentage of water is changed in your tanks and how often is the water changed in your daily
/ weekly water changing schedule ?
3: In a specific sized tank(s) how many petros do you prefer and at what male / female ratio do you
prefer in that tank ?
4: Do you keep more than three variants in a tank, if so did you encounter any problems (raising /
breeding, etc) ?
5: What are the three major foods that you feed your adult petros and how often do you feed your
petros and do you feed foods like Shrimp Mix ?
6: What is the PH of your water ?
7: How long do you leave the lights in the fish room or lights on your aquariums. For example
lights come on and stay on for how many hours per day. How many times per day ?
8: What is the temperature of your tanks year round. Do you deliberately adjust the temperature
based on what season of the year it is ?
9: What petros do you have now and what is your all time best petro that you have ever kept ?
10: If you could get any petro that you don’t have now , which petro would it be ?
11: What was the easiest and the hardest petro that you have bred and was there anything special
that you did to get them to breed ?
12: How did you get involved with petros and how long have you been raising / breeding them ?