The Sire is a black/orange VT male with some iridescence on the body. He has a nice VT form although I would like to see slightly fuller ventrals. The female is a full sibling to the male.
With this cross I hope to fix the strong bodies, smooth topline and the finnage. The offspring (F2) likely will be darkbody (with maybe some iridescence) with either red, orange or yellow finnage with a chance of dalmatian spots to appear.

29/01/16: The pair spawned smoothly. Seems to be a small spawn.
30/01/16: The fry hatched.
02/02/16: The fry entered the free-swimming stage. Removed the male.
04/02/16: The fry is feeding well on vinegar eels and BBS.
05/03/16: The fry is now 5 weeks old. There seem to be some interesting colors.

11/03/16: 6 weeks old! We've got yellow and........

28/03/16: 9 weeks old.

10/04/16: 11 weeks old:

04/05/16: 14 weeks old. Time to start jarring.

19/06/16: Two brothers with interesting colors, now 21 weeks old.

08/08/16: 27 weeks old.