I didn't know there was such an informative thread and interesting discussion going on. And yes lung fish are not being bred yet, and coming out of Africa direct, they do not have the technology to make altered fish yet. I can assure you that these are wild mutations. Yes I have known the altered colored fish for some time now, and I personally dislike fish that are man made for these traits. If you find a wild one like this its certainly unique and rare, anything else is just the same as me cutting a fish in half and selling it as short body.
waited many years to afford one of these and gave up a regular colored lung to do so also. I may be lucky, but every lung ive ever kept took to pellets immediately from any size. They are exellent sand sifters and spend most days rooting through every inch of substrate. Ive kept annetcens, aethiopicus and south americans. Treated them all the same with a pellet only diet.
