The Sire is a steel blue-based black lace HMPK with some red was with a nice asymmetrical HMPK shape. He has a big-sized caudal with a pretty good overall form. The Dame is a steel blue-based black lace HMPK sister with pretty good balanced finnage.
With this outcross I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline and balanced finnage. The offspring (F2) likely will be (metallic) steel blue-based fish with a chance of black lace, marble and red wash to pop up.

20/05/19: The pair spawned.
21/05/19: The fry hatched, seems like a very small spawn of maximally 10 fry.
23/05/19: Removed the Sire.
25/09/18: The fry is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS.
30/05/19: The pair spawned again in a new attempt.
01/06/19: The fry hatched.
03/06/19: Removed the Sire.
06/09/18: The fry of the second spawn is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS.
15/07/19: The fry are now 6-8 weeks old and both spawns were fused together into a bigger grow-out tank together with spawn BT310519.

30/11/19: Two potential breeders from this spawn at 28 weeks of age.

30/12/19: Four HMPK siblings at 33weeks of age!