His eyes are actually orange, not red. The interesting part is the day that this fish landed his eyes were white, and by the next day they had shifted to orange.
As far as the name game, with FH I simply go by what the breeder calls the fish. If he calls it a Oranged Eyed Mo Fo, that's fine by me, as the chances of ever knowing with 100% certainty what the genetic make up is of each so called "strain" of FH is like playing genetic Russian roulette.
The ZZ traits that one might see in a fish could have come from one of the parents, or several generations back. Only the breeder would know when or where ZZ had been introduced. As far as that goes, they may not even know.
Typically when it comes to creating new hybrid strains of fish in aquaculture, the goal is to create a strain that will throw 100% of the offspring exactly like the parents. As an example, in African cichlids the Red Zebra OB strain is a man made morph. I know the person that created it many years ago and he spent many years developing that strain & didn't release it to the public until his fish bred 99.99% true. Others who created hybrid crosses released them too early, and every once in a while you end up with some offspring that look nothing like the parents, but look exactly like the original fish used to create the new strain.
With FH's it doesn't work that way (as in same strain parents do not typically breed true), it's all a random mumbo jumbo of genes, which is why in a spawn of 200-300 fry there's no telling with any real certainty what they will all end up looking like when they mature.
It's also why out of a spawn that size you may only end up with a few real masterpieces, or none at all. It's genetic Russian roulette, and the odds are not always in the houses favor. Certainly many strains of FH have been worked with enough to fix certain traits in each strain, but there will always be juvies that are genetic throw backs to earlier generations.
The fish below is a prime example. Sold by a Thai breeder as a "Red Diamond". If I told people that I bought it from a breeder in Vietnam, and it was sold to me as a Tan King, who could argue?
It could very well be a ZZ x Kamfa, and the Thai breeder simply thought that the name "Red Diamond" added some sex appeal, and removed the chance of his Thai fish being confused with a strain originally created by a breeder in 'Nam.
My advice, give your brain a rest, when it comes to FH it's not worth nit picking over strains or names. Just keep the fish that you personally like the most.
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