New and different...I now understand the appeal. I agree. I thought they were just awesome from the first time I saw them a couple two or three weeks ago, and was very impressed with each visit how much color they were picking up. The one I bought today rode on my dashboard to school in the natural light, and man, what an amazing color. Purplish-blue tips, actually a brownish body in the sunlight, but almost white in the store aquarium. So cool.