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 is a full sister to the Sire showing the te same characteristics.
With this cross I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline and balanced finnage. The offspring (F2) will most likely be both light- and darkbodied HMPKs with a varying distribution of red and blue. 

The Sire is also Father of: BT041212.
The Dame is also mother of: BT150213A.

14/12/12: The pair spawned, the nest if full with eggs. The males is taking excellent care of the nest.
15/12/12: The fry hatched. Looks like there are about 30-40 fry!
17/12/12: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
18/12/12: The fry is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS.

12/01/13: The fry is now 4 weeks old and developing nicely, spotted both light- and darkbodied fry. Spotted several DTs.  

23/02/13: Some fry, now 10 weeks old.

15/03/13: Update on the fry, now 14 weeks old.

03/04/13: 16 week old cellophane HMPK male with a great potential.

28/04/13: 19 weeks old. Two blue/red butterfly HMPK males.

20/06/13: The cellophane HMPK male from above, now 27 weeks old.

23/06/13: Two more.......

25/08/13: 1 male and 3 females of this spawn were send to the Holland Betta Show 2013. None of them won a prize.