Just wondering.. I got a blue HMPK pair and a blue dragon HMPK pair recently.
(Yea, the blue dragon HMPK pair is the one I'm trying to resell.)


I really don't like the form and the mustard color underneath the blue dragon, but do you think it's worth to try crossing it to the blue HMPK?

(:OO Of course, male to female.)

If not, I will just sell the blue dragon pair (there are some interested buyers) but if it is so, then I might sell the copper pair instead.




Though initially, I was considering crossing the mustard copper dragon to my gorgeous copper HM, but on second thought, that's not a good idea.

It depends on what you hope to get out of them. They both have ok form, but both have the rounded leading edges on the caudal that's so common on 180deg Bettas that keep them from being HM. They are going to throw a mix of colors if you breed the first pair. The first male also has a real problem with it's scales down the side of it. I would breed the blue pair before I worked the other pair.I personally wouldn't breed the first male because of the scale problem.



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Yea. Ok, guess it's official that I'm just going to resell the dragon pairs.

The blue hmpk is nice. That is a keeper. ^_^

that blue is awsome !!! i just got one that resembles him alot whats your coppers look like pictures please i love good coppers! :T

I was wondering what was wrong with the first males scales.
I see uneven coloration, but it doesn't look like they are uneven themselves, or missing. I just need someone to point out the problem.

Look at the scale pattern by the top of the anal. Scales are supposed to be in striatght rows, not that.

OK, I see a half row, and then a full row above it.
Right above the very end of the anal is a patch of misaligned scales.
One larger than normal scale, but the rest, it looks to me that is poor coloration. Am I missing something else? Funny what you can't see when you are half dead, lol.
Live and learn, I guess.
Thanks

I'm not sure that's irregular scaling as much as you might think. I'd need to see him in person. It could be due to the heavy metallics and not actually irregular scales.

Just MHO.

I don't think that the heavy metalic would cause the irregularly shaped scaling, or make it look like that along the bottum, where there is the yellow wash. The scales look funny, not scale'ish shaped.

I still say you can't tell without seeing him in person. Optical illusions occur in photos, especially with the metallic layer.

scale issues asside, the biggest problem I see when crossing those two lines is that that yellow is gonna produce red in the first generations, causeing that first spawn to be multis (which alot of people don't want), an F2 should produce more yellow instead of red, but it'd take several generations to breed it out entirely.

Well, there was a pair of the yellowed ones, so breeding them together, would make a blue gas dragon, lol.

B)