Ammonia0
nitrite0
nitrate40
ph8
Ok so Naboo's freaking me out!
I walked over to the tank and was shocked to see Naboo looking like he only had 1 eye! His left eye wasn't even there, it just looked like skin had healed over it. I imediatly thought he'd fallen asleep against the heater and it had melted his eye over.
Seconds later his eye reappeared from his head, I watched him and he kept sucking it in a little way and the letting it go back to normal
Here's a vid, he doesn't suck it right in but you get the idea
He saeems fine and doesn't seem to be in any pain
I've read threads of peoples Dogface puffers sucking their fins in but has anyone seen their puffer do this?
I've just looked at him again and he's doing it with his right eye to?!
Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
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Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
Read this before posting!!
Since this board has been up, we have found there are several questions that routinely get asked in order to help diagnose problems. If you can have that information to begin with in your post, we'll be able to help right away (if we can!) without having to wait for you to post the info we need.
1) Your water parameters - pH, Ammonia, Nitrite, Nitrates and salinity (if appropriate). This is by far the most important information you can provide! Do not answer this with "Fine" "Perfect" "ok", that tells us nothing. We need hard numbers.
2) Tank size and a list of ALL inhabitants. Include algae eaters, plecos, everything. We need to know what you have and how big the tank is.
3) Feeding, water change schedule and a list of all products you are using or have added to the tank (examples: Cycle, Amquel, salt, etc)
4) What changes you've made in the tank in the last week or so. Sometimes its the little things that make all the difference.
5) How long the aquarium has been set up, and how did you cycle it? If you don't know what cycling is read this: Fishless Cycling Article and familiarize yourself with all the information. Yes. All of it.
We want to help, and providing this information will go a LONG way to getting a diagnosis and hopeful cure that much faster.
While you wait for assistance:
One of the easiest and best ways to help your fish feel better is clean water! If you are already on a regular water change schedule (50% weekly is recommended) a good step to making your fish more comfortable while waiting for diagnosis/suggestions is to do a large water change immediately. Feel free to repeat daily or as often as you can, clean water is always a good thing! Use of Amquel or Prime as a dechlor may help with any ammonia or nitrite issues, and is highly recommended.
Note - if you do not normally do large water changes, doing a sudden, large water change could shock your fish by suddenly changing their established water chemistry. Clean water is still your first goal, so in this case, do several smaller (10%) water changes over the next day or two before starting any large ones.
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
Elvis and Annabelle have both done this. I have no idea why! 
Elvis has done it maybe twice, and Annabelle once.
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matt748
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
Wow, Crazy fish these puffers mate. Gonna check on mine now and see if he does the same.
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
I've seen Douglas my Mbu do this too,maybe it's when they're having a quick nap
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
haha either that or he's winking at mejayne wrote:I've seen Douglas my Mbu do this too,maybe it's when they're having a quick nap
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puffertt77
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
That is weird. does it happen as he swims along side the glass? as dwaine seems to retract his eyes a little when he swims alongside the tank maybe it just pushes em in a little. Cant really tell from the video
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puffertt77
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
No he litrally just sits there sucking it in and out, he's probably just found out he can do it and is just having funBogwoodbruce wrote:That is weird. does it happen as he swims along side the glass? as dwaine seems to retract his eyes a little when he swims alongside the tank maybe it just pushes em in a little. Cant really tell from the video
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
I've seen both Homer and Marge do the same thing on separate occasions... no idea what it means or why they do it though...
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
It seems to be pretty common for puffers to do this. Nothing to worry about, so long as otherwise he's acting normal.
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
Haha! Look's pretty creepy :S
Just want to point one thing out, you wrote: "I imediatly thought he'd fallen asleep against the heater and it had melted his eye over." The heater is constantly cooled and don't get warmer than the surrounding water
Just want to point one thing out, you wrote: "I imediatly thought he'd fallen asleep against the heater and it had melted his eye over." The heater is constantly cooled and don't get warmer than the surrounding water
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
Hey Biocellatus, yeah very creepy lookingBiocellatus wrote:Haha! Look's pretty creepy :S
Just want to point one thing out, you wrote: "I imediatly thought he'd fallen asleep against the heater and it had melted his eye over." The heater is constantly cooled and don't get warmer than the surrounding water
If you touch your heater it's actually hot even though it's underwater, you can see the heat waves coming off of it. If it's one like mine you can adjust how warm you want the water and the heater will then turn on and off to keep the water at that temp. When it's on it can be quite hot even though it's under water
There's quite a lot of accidents with Plectostomus sucker fish getting stuck to them
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Re: Naboo the Mbu keeps sucking his eye into his head!
Wow that's wacky! Learned something cool and new about puffers again! Thanks for sharing!