Look Up! Celestial Eye Goldfish

Posted by Carly Brooke | Jan 30, 2011 | celestial eye goldfish, cute, fish | 4 |

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image credit: AndreJenny.com
Habitat: Domestic, Originated in China
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I’m sure everyone has owned a pet goldfish at one point in their lives. I know mine committed suicide when I was 5 by jumping out of their fishbowl when I came home from school one day. That wasn’t traumatizing or anything…

Anyways, did you ever own a fancy-shmancy Celestial Eye Goldfish? These guys are defined by their eyes which are turned upwards, pupils gazing skyward.

The first documentation that Celestials existed appears on a Chinese scroll of 1772, where a goldfish lacking a dorsal fin and possessing protuberant upturned eyes is depicted.

Cuties. Still bet mine wouldn’t survive more than a few days though 🙁

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