Weird gill?

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So, one of my babies has started developing one crazy gill. It is much bigger that the others (and has been a little bigger the entire time I've had him/her), and has this HUGE blood vessel in it so that it just looks like a club compared to the other gills. It also appears that the little filaments (or whatever those little fluffies on their gills are called) on the mutant large gills are barely existant, where the rest of her gills are shorter and smaller, but developing and fluffier. Is this normal? It just seems rather strange that it would develop one huge on this way. I have a fuzzy picture of it; I'll try to get a better one when I have better light. The big gill is the top one.
 

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That is weird. I've never seen anything like that.
 
That is odd.

I know mine have short, really fluffy gills and one has a forked gill.. but nothing that odd!

As long as she seems fine, i wouldn't really worry..
 
Well, it doesn't seem to bother her, so I'm not too worried. The other gills are growing in fluffy, the one just looks awkward being much longer and bare. Ah well, a unique individual!
 
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