The Sire is a marble HMPK bred in Indonesia. I was happy to borrow him from my friend Arie de Koning for this spawn. He shows a very nice strong body, strong peduncle and good mouth-to-dorsal topline. His caudal fin is nicely D-shaped with a nice shaped anal and dorsal fin. The Dame is a black dragon HMPK from Thailand and without any doubt one of the best females I have owned so far.
The goal of this cross is mainly to fix the strong bodies & quality finnage as well as the metallic/"dragon" color in the offspring. The offspring (F1) will be HM PK.

18/01/12: The pair spawned!
19/01/12: The fry hatched. Seems like a small spawn.
21/01/12: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
22/01/12: Although the fry seems quite small, there are about 15-20 fry feeding well on BBS.
31/01/12: The fry is now ~2 weeks old.
08/02/12: The fry is now 3 weeks old and developing nicely.

28/02/12: The fry is now 6 weeks old and already starting to show a thick metallic layer. Had to cull a few rosetails.

20/03/12: The fry is now 9 weeks old. They are showing a really nice metallic/dragon layer.

06/04/12: The fry is now 11 weeks old.

29/04/12: The fry is now 15 weeks old, jarred the first males.

14/05/12: Two more males now 17 weeks old.