The Sire is royal blue based black lace HMPK was bred by my friend Eugenio Fornasiero from Italy. This male became first placed in the M2 - Asymmetrical HMPK Male AOC class at the Holland Betta Show 2015.  He has a nice strong body with good balanced finnage. The caudal is nice in size and has a good D-shape with long outer rays. The anal has a good trapezoid shape with a nice gradual slope. The dorsal is uniform rounded and nicely directed forward in the fron. Ideally the base could have been a bit more voluminous with a broader base. The ventrals have a great shape and volume with nice single tips. The Dame is steel blue HMPK with a nice long body with a smooth topline and very nice balanced finnage (nice D-shaped caudal fin, broad-based dorsal and parallel anal fin).
With this cross I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline and balanced finnage. The offspring (F1) likely will be darkbody royal blue and steel blue with a chance of black lace fish and marbles to pop up.

The Dame is also Mother of: BT260815A and BT031215.

22/10/15: The pair spawned smoothly. There are lots of eggs in the nest.
23/10/15: The fry hatched.
25/10/15: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
04/12/15: The fry is now 6 weeks old and feeding well on tubifex.

15/01/16: 12 weeks old.

30/01/16: The fry is now 14 weeks old, two males have been seperated so far.

26/02/16: The fry is now 18 weeks old.

04/05/16: 28 weeks old.