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I love sleeping Balki pics!!! I can never sneak up on mine...they always see me and start begging for food.

Srkoe wrote:I love sleeping Balki pics!!! I can never sneak up on mine...they always see me and start begging for food.

Thanks Srkoe
You know, Balki has been doing this lately, I think he's out cold sleeping, and then as soon as the camera/phone comes within view, he swims away. And then he's been having the nerve to fall asleep without tucking his tail! lol

I took a pic of him recently with his tail tucked, but the angle and his expression just made him look like a zombie, he looked more creepy than cute.

puffers sleep with their eyes open correct?

no eye lids 0.0

I didn't know this until I googled it but apparently fish have a permanently closed transparent eyelid that helps protect the fish's eye from damage

hahaha.
Just had to make sure cause i always catch my puff sleeping until he realizes i am around. He sleeps facing the door way so i cant sneak up on him

Neither of mine look cute when they sleep LOL. But now that I have a real camera Im going to try and get some pics of them

jjj5311 wrote:puffers sleep with their eyes open correct?

my fahaka sucks his eyes into his head when sleeping. was soooooooo scary first time i saw it. so i would say eyes closed when sleeping open when resting. Could be wrong but its what i see

bertie 83 wrote:

jjj5311 wrote:puffers sleep with their eyes open correct?

my fahaka sucks his eyes into his head when sleeping. was soooooooo scary first time i saw it. so i would say eyes closed when sleeping open when resting. Could be wrong but its what i see

OMG that does sound scary. I've never heard of puffers doing that! Mine never closes or retracts his eyes, thankfully, that sounds scary. lol

Here is a picture of my puff sleeping.... He always hides behind this fake anemone thing that i got for him lol

Also in the picture you can see the floating feeder thing that he tipped over and sank before i took this picture, now he swims into the feeder looking for his worms

Cute! He has great looking spots!

thanks!

I have been getting more pics of him but he always wakes up or runs away when i put my phone near the glass lol.

Well, I'm sad to say that Balki has pretty much stopped tucking his tail when he naps, and I'm so sad I barely ever see him with his tail tucked anymore.
This was from last month, unfortunately the pic is really blurry and he was hiding his curled tail to the right, so he kind of just looks like an arse-less zombie.

Uggh sevenyearnight, your pictures are super adorable!
I am convinced Lola doesn't sleep. Ever. Sometimes when I wake up in the middle of the night, & there is only the glow from the street lights outside in my apartment, so it's as dark as it gets. I don't turn on any lights so can catch her sleeping, but nope. Can see her shadow darting around the tank at three in the morning with all the lights out.

Hahaha! Thanks I catch Balki swimming around in the middle of the night too, it's kind of weird...

My abei/turdugs(what ever it is) is funny cause he will sleep in the corner of the tank instead of his cave. As soon as he wakes up he runs to his cave though