TY Trad 031814
Foundation light-bodied, clean, and INTENSE yellow show HMPK male by Pichet (Interfish, Thailand).
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Darkbodied, intense red show HMPK female by Sieg Illig.
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Favorite pineapple male out of the F1 spawn. BOV shortfin traditional PK male at Convention.
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Nice body and fins, and impressive spread for having only a 2 ray split!
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Spawn 031814
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This will be the F3 of the red/yellow traditional PK line. I'm very excited to cross these two and see what we get! The male has a beautiful dark-bodied red, with good traditional form. He does have too much iridescence, which I am hoping the female will help clean up (since she has literally zero iridescence!) Since this photo, his anal and ventrals have lengthened and extended back a little bit. He has a fule 180 with a slight spade tail that I like, along with a longer body and relatively smooth topline. The female's pictures do not do her justice - she just really hates the photo tank! Her color is a very intense and beautiful yellow evenly covering her body and fins, with only one row of black scales (which came after she was 6 months of age). Her caudal is a full 180 and has only primary branching. When she is in full flare, there are no gaps between the unpaired fins. She has a small dip in her topline, and her anal could have a sharper point. One important thing to note is that both have weak dorsals (unfortunately inherited from the mother's side in the parent spawn). I will have to watch out for the development of the dorsals in this spawn, and possibly bring in a stronger dorsal outcross in the future.
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Update 072115
I got some really beautiful fish from this spawn! Unfortunately all female except for one male! All of them had only primary branching in their caudals, which I really liked!
Only male from this spawn. He has a mix of traditional and show plakat traits. The long body and caudal with only primary branching, but still a 180 spread, is definitely traditional. However, the dorsal is shaped more like a show - it is too broad. A traditional dorsal should snap open like a fan. The anal comes to a single, clean point, which I like, but it needs to be 1/3 longer and taper back. The ventrals should also be the length of the body.
Some really great red females! All of them looked very similar. Beautiful bodies, almost zero iridescence, with good caudal spreads and only primary branching. The anal fins could come to a slightly longer point, but I really like where they are now.
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There were several pineapples, but no clean yellows. This picture actually washed out her color - she was a much deeper yellow than this.
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