So I’ve seen a few posts about normal fluffies with unhealthy mutations that some real life cat and dog breeds have, and it made me think of something similar but specifically for fish-like seafluffies/aquafluffies (or “fishfluffies” as I like to call this subtype in my headcanon).
This is perhaps the pinnacle of questionable breeding in goldfish. Besides the extremely delicate fluid-filled sacs below its eyes which could pop with the slightest abrasion, it also lacks a dorsal fin and that greatly hinders its swimming speed.
And though well-bred Fancy Goldfish (those with short bodies and double tails) are typically more-or-less healthy, poorly bred ones are prone to severe health problems.
Now imagine adding all these mutations to an already brittle and accident-prone aquafluffy. Poor little bastard wouldn’t stand a chance.
There are also a couple breeds of goldfish that have something called a wen, which is a fleshy growth on their heads.
Sometimes these can get overgrown and need to be trimmed.
I just remembered yet another goldfish breed with mutations detrimental to their health: the Pearlscale.
They are extremely prone to swim bladder issues and spinal deformity, and can’t swim very well either due to their shape.
Apparently first image is a blobfish in it’s natural habitat but basically a deepsea fluffy that gets brought up too fast.
Also since we’re talking about sea fluffies I’ve yet to see anyone write about someone doing this to a fluffy. Gotta try and preserve that umami flavor.
It is. It always disgusts me how Tumblrtards keep trying to make that disgusting imploded corpse of that poor fish into something “cute”. Some people have even turned that thing into plush toys.
Though now that I think of it, that would also be an interesting scenario to fluffify. Deep Sea Fluffy dies horribly from being pulled up too fast, the image goes viral, and some retards decide its deformed corpse is “cute” and make plush toys based on said corpse.
