Mike Schroeder is a member of the Quad City Fish Keepers, the Quad Cities area aquarium club that invited me to give a talk at their January (2011) swap meet. Mike invited me in to see his fish room and let Mathew and I take pictures and video. Mike was described to me by another Davenport-area hobbyist as ‘the guy we all blame for our Lake Malawi cichlids’, because for many years Mike managed a local store that heavily promoted cichlids. Mike is heavily invested in Lake Malawi species, and he breeds a lot of them. He covered three tables at the QCFK swap, and I am told that what he brought was only half of what he usually brought. Here is a glimpse of Mike’s fish room: