The Sire is a blue/red HMPK with a strong body and smooth mouth-to-dorsal topline. His finnage is nicely compact and balanced with a nice D-shaped caudal, broad-based dorsal and parallel anal fin. The Dame also has a strong body, smooth mouth-to-dorsal topline and balanced finnage. Sire and Dame are half-siblings as they have the same mother.
With this cross I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline and balanced finnage. The offspring (F1) will most likely be both light- and darkbodied HMPKs with a varying distribution of red and blue. Some fry might loose the red due to the red-loss trait or marble.

The Sire is also Father of: BT141212

04/12/12: The pair spawned, the nest if full with eggs. The males is taking excellent care of the nest.
05/12/12: The fry hatched. Looks like there are about 20-30 fry!

07/12/12: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
08/12/12: The fry is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS.
12/01/13: The fry is now 5 weeks old and developing nicely, spotted both light- and darkbodied fry. 

23/02/13: Overview of the fry in the grow-out, now 12 weeks old.

15/03/13: Update on the fry, now 14 weeks old. Interestingly one young male is showing a blue/yellow pattern.

23/03/13: Two newly jarred males, 15 weeks old.

03/04/13: 17 weeks old. Interesting to see how the fish I posted 1.5 weeks ago (upper right) gained a lot more color again (lower right).

28/04/13: 20 weeks old. The pattern of the marble, seems to have more or less stabilized for now.

15/06/13: Update on two males and two females now 28 weeks old.

21/06/13: Four more fish from this spawn.

25/08/13: 7 males and 1 females of this spawn were send to the Holland Betta Show 2013. Two of them won a prize:
- 2nd F2+F3 Halfmoon plakat female class - AOC
- 4th M2 Asymmetrical HMPK male class - AOC

13/09/13: Three females of this spawn were send to the 4th Italian Betta Show in Piacenza, Italy. Two of them won prizes:
- 1st Show plakat Female, Best of Variety Shortfin Female and Best of Show Female
- 3rd Show plakat Female