Purple HMPK Spawn Project

[aquanick]

Father:





Mother:







I really liked the male both color and finnage wise. Since i did not have a matching female, i crossed it with the closest female available. My aim is to get a few fries out of this spawn to be like the father and continue this line further.


19/10/13 : pair introduced
20/10/13 : pair released
21/10/13 : pair spawned
24/10/13 : fries are free swimming
25/10/13 : father removed


Spawn:



Fries on 25/10/2013:



Day 1 of feeding daphnia:


Date: 28/10/2013





Day 18 (today)


Date:13/11/2013









Week 5


[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccoC-ILwSpQ[/youtube]


Week 6











Cheers

[Shi Xuan]

Looks like a nice assortment of colors. Are you intending to work on the greens as well?

[Rutilans]

And the top right fry looks wild looking.
Would be glad to take it off u

[stormhawk]

You can get "wild-looking" plakat from among any PK spawns, since the parents will carry the genes. However, the fry that show the "wild" patterning may also produce colored fry.

[aquanick]

@Shxi Xuan : No i will not be working on the turquoise (green hmpks). I have already spotted around 10+ purple hmpks and would continue with them

[aquanick]

@rutilans: 1.5 months is too early to comment about the final colors. If you see both parents do not have red, the female has marble, so I am expecting most of the fries to marble around 2 months plus..

[aquanick]

Week 7


Today the fries are exactly 7 weeks old. I have converted their diet to Hikari frozen bloodworms only.





Quality Check :: Purple Achieved

[Shi Xuan]

Good work and please continue to update. Would be interesting to see how your project goes. You might want to have a few more lines just in case.

The greens are pretty too but what are you going to do with them since you are not planning to breed them?

[aquanick]

Thanks for the appreciation shi.. I will most probably cull the ones with defects, rest I will give away.. keep only this color..

[stormhawk]

You might want to get a better filter for the tank, I can see a layer of bio film or some oily substance present in the images. Usually when I get this is when I happen to overfeed my fish on a protein-rich diet. The hues on your juveniles are nice.

[aquanick]

2 Months Now!


Jarred a few as they were getting aggressive.


Fry 1 Cello








Fry 2 Melano


At week 7:



Marbling Now:






Fry 3














Cheers!

[stormhawk]

I like fry no.2 out of the lot. Great finnage however.

[aquanick]

Thanks for the appreciation stormhawk.. I will share the other jarred bettas as well..

[gwabbie]

Great looking bettas! Glad to take some off your hands

[aquanick]

@Gwabbie: sure, come visit anytime
I can share some FOC or for some moss..

I am glad that I have some now which are exactly what i wanted, i.e, pure PURPLE..

[aquanick]

One from the spawn :



This pic is 2 weeks old, i liked his balance.. will post the recent pics..

[Stla]

Wow so nice i love the colour!

[Marcus Lay]

Wow beautiful spawns!!

[DaNny Chong]

Any update?

[DaNny Chong]

Can i mayb buy a pair from u? Just start betta about 1 week and purple is my favourite colour.