The Sire is a salamander HMPK which was a gift of Sebastian Säck from Germany. He shows a very nice strong body, strong peduncle and good mouth-to-dorsal topline. His caudal fin has a good 180 degree spread but  ideally the corners could be bit sharper. The anal fin is nicely parallel to the body and the although the dorsal has a nice shape, the base could be broader. The Dame is a strong-bodied cambodian-based red HMPK from my own line with a balanced appearance and a nicely broad-based dorsal fin.
With this outcross I hope to fix the strong bodies and overall balance. The offspring (F1) will be blue/red HMPKs of which some might show a small with rim in the unpaired fins.

The Dame is also mother of: BT260512.

29/04/12: The pair spawned!

30/04/12: The fry hatched.
01/05/12: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
02/06/12: The fry is now 5 weeks old and feeding well on BBS and tubifex. Their colors seem to be blue/red
"salamander-like" and it is Interesting to see that some of them show a slight white rim already in the finnage.

14/07/12: The fry is now 11 weeks old.

23/07/12: Overview of the grow-out at 12 weeks of age. There are two tones of blue/red fish in the spawn, either royal blue or steel blue based.

04/08/12: 14 weeks old!

05/09/12: 19 weeks old!

13/09/12: Some more males, 20 weeks old!

06/10/12: Four males from this spawn were send to the 2nd Betta Freaks Show in Dortmund, Germany. Three of them won a prize:
- 1st Asymmetrical HM PK male class - Butterfly/banded
- 3rd Asymmetrical HM PK male class - Butterfly/banded
- 4th Asymmetrical HM PK male class - Butterfly/banded

25/10/12: Nice salamander HMPK male, now 26 weeks old!

04/11/12: Some salamander HMPK females in the grow-out, now 27 weeks old!

02/12/12: 31 weeks old.

14/12/12: 32 weeks old, potential breeder female.

10/03/13: Two males and one female of this spawn were send to the 9th Show of the Kampffischfreunde in Friedrichshafen, Germany. All three of them won a prize:
- 1st Show Plakat Male Multicolor
- 2nd Show Plakat Male Multicolor
- 3rd Show Plakat Female Patterned