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Does this look like Pop Eye?


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While feeding this morning, I noticed my electric blue acaras eyes looked to be a bit bigger than normal. Not sure if I’m just being paranoid but does this look like pop eye? If so what should I do for treatment?

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I *think* those are just blue acaras, but I'm not an acara expert.  I don't think it's pop eye, some fish have eyes that are naturally out pretty far from their faces.  I'd keep an eye on it though.  Looking particularly for discoloration (or cloudiness) in the eye or the area where the eye comes out from the fish.  That will usually swell and get lighter in color.  

This is an extreme example: Popeye Disease; Exophthalmia In Discus and Tropical Fish - Discus Fish

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