Its a pretty new one… and kinda interesting… they blast eggs/fry kids with high amts of UV light in the early stages of life to create an erray of “morphs”…Not sure what exactly its doing to the skin/pigments. Def. Hard to track tho as its kinda a craps shoot. Ive seen fish with red eyes, normal eyes, black eyes and of course an erray of pigments and lack of it… translucent skin… etc…. Pretty smart honestly… and lucrative… just bad for keepers and their wallets as its hard to tell what they are, could be, or will turn into… its no surprise with the amt these fish are aquacultured and bred in house manually. Kinda tip my hat to the farmers for really doubling down on their exploitations and experiments ??
So far ive seen rtc, tigs, piranha, gar, dats, lung fish… its works on some fish and not others… im sure we’ll see all kinds of abominations soon enough lol… i possibly owned 2 specimens myself that underwent “treatments”, sold as “reg natural morphs or wild caught” annnd they were purchaced 5-6 yrs ago so theyve been at it for a while. Be hard pressed to know if any morph is real these days without collection info… or catching it urself