The Sire is an cambodian-based extended red HMPK from the best red spawn I have had in my fishroom so far. He shows a strong body, thick peduncle and a smooth mouth-to-dorsal topline. The finnage is nicely balanced with a good D-shaped caudal fin with sharp corners, a broad-based dorsal fin and a pretty parallel anal fin. The Dame is an cambodian-based extended red HMPK with an interesting mixed background. Her mother descents from one an outcross of my red HMPK line to a crowntail  (BT120711) which then was crossed back to a HMPK by my friend Arie de Koning. 
With this cross I hope to get offspring with an intense red color (without too much underlying black scaling and blue iridescence). Further I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline, balanced finnage in the offspring. The offspring (F1) will be lightbody extended red iridescent HMPKs.   

15/07/13: The pair spawned.

16/07/13: The fry hatched. Seems to be a small spawn.
18/07/13: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
19/07/13: The fry is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS, looks like a big spawn!
12/08/13: 4 weeks old. The spawn was split over two spawning tanks to promote the growing process. As expected all fry are lightbodied.
25/08/13: 6 weeks old. Spotted some great dorsals!

25/08/13: 8 weeks old. The fry of both spawning tanks were combined again into one bigger grow-out.

30/09/13: 12 weeks old.

05/11/13: The fry is now 15 weeks old. I have divided this spawn over two grow-out tanks based on their size, to get an impression of how many there are left here a picture of both tanks:

02/12/13: The fry is now 20 weeks old. Jarred several males. Here a picture of two of them:

24/12/13: Two males now 23 weeks old:

20/01/14: Two males now 27 weeks old:

16/03/14: Two males now 35 weeks old:

10/03/14: Three fish of this spawn were send to the 1th European IBC Convention in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Two of them won a prize.
- 1st Halfmoon Shortfin Male (All colors)
- 2nd Halfmoon Shortfin Male (All colors)

15/04/14: 2 fish of this spawn were send to the 5th Betta Freaks Show @ Interkoi2014, Kalkar, Germany. One of them won a prize.
- 2nd Halfmoon plakat male class - Unicolor

03/08/15: The male previously posted above is now 2 years and 3 weeks old and still going strong!