The Sire is a steel blue HMPK with a black lace underlayer. He has a nice strong body (topline ideally could be a bit more smooth). The caudal has a nice D-shape with long outer rays. The anal has a good trapezoid shape with a nice gradual slope. The dorsal is uniform rounded and ideally could have a bit more volume with a broader base. The ventrals have a nice length, volume and 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 steel blue with a chance of black lace fish to pop up.

The Dame is also Mother of: BT221015A and BT031215.

28/08/15: The pair spawned smoothly. There are lots of eggs in the nest.
29/08/15: The fry hatched.
30/08/15: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.

02/10/15: The fry is now 5 weeks old and feeding well on tubifex. As expected all the fry are steel blues.

03/11/15: The fry is now 10 weeks old and growing well. Several fish have started to marble.

12/12/15: The fry is now 15 weeks old. Here 4 males which have been jarred two weeks ago.

26/12/15: The fry is now 18 weeks old.

16/02/16: 25 weeks old!

29/04/16: One male and one female of this spawn were send to the 8th Betta Freaks Show in Kalkar, Germany. Both won a prize:
- 1st F2/F3 Halfmoon plakat female class - All Other Colors & Best of Show Female
- 3rd M2 Asymmetrical HMPK male class - Unicolor iridescent