I think they look odd, but from what I could find it doesn't seem to affect them all that much. They don't seem any more fragile or needy than their scaled counterparts. They seem undeserving of the hate they get. Would it even matter if they were more fragile, they aren't in the wild they won't be picked off or attacked by something. And even then they have been found in the wild. But that's just my two cents.