HELP PLEASE!! babies are getting eye infections

mpbm31 · Jun 28, 2012

I was wondering if you guys could give me any info on the problem I'm having with my baby panthers. Once I transfer them from the incubator to the sterlite tub with the exo-terra ivy and a few small branches for them to climb on. I got 7 babies that's hatched so far(5 eggs left), 1 died right away, 2 has eye infections, and the others are doing awesome. I just don't understand what's going wrong with the babies getting eye infections. I don't want the other to develop problems unless these babies were doomed from the beginning. The temp during the day is 78 and night is about 68. I keep them hydrated well with ro water and feeding them gut loaded pinheads and supplement with reptical and herpivite. I've tried fluching their eyes with warm ro water but I can tell it's a white discharge I can swab off it's eyes. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Chameleons Canada · Jun 28, 2012

Ho can you tell hey have eye infections?

Carlton · Jun 28, 2012

mpbm31 said:
I was wondering if you guys could give me any info on the problem I'm having with my baby panthers. Once I transfer them from the incubator to the sterlite tub with the exo-terra ivy and a few small branches for them to climb on. I got 7 babies that's hatched so far(5 eggs left), 1 died right away, 2 has eye infections, and the others are doing awesome. I just don't understand what's going wrong with the babies getting eye infections. I don't want the other to develop problems unless these babies were doomed from the beginning. The temp during the day is 78 and night is about 68. I keep them hydrated well with ro water and feeding them gut loaded pinheads and supplement with reptical and herpivite. I've tried fluching their eyes with warm ro water but I can tell it's a white discharge I can swab off it's eyes. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Are they separated? If not, do so immediately! I think you'd need a vet to examine their eyes in detail and possibly culture the discharge to find out what it is. Possibly an antibiotic optical treatment would help and you could do that as soon as you see problems. Flushing their eyes won't treat anything, just help them clean them.

mpbm31 · Jun 28, 2012

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I'm just saying they act blind and appears as if they don't have a pupil. The eye looks solid white and I've swabbed their eye and it didn't move until I actually touch the eye. There was a slime like substance that I swabbed away from it it's eye so that's why I said e"eye infection". None of the other chams have ever developed stuff like this before. The others are fine and I can tell their growing cause I've seen them eat and they drink tons of water. I'm just asking for help/information.

BocaJan · Jun 28, 2012

That happened to me with a clutch of veileds when I mated cousins. Are the Sire and Dam related at all?

mpbm31 · Jun 29, 2012

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No the chams are not related. The sire was an offspring of Bonaroo from The Chameleon Company and the dam is from Circle Side from Chamalot Chameleons.

mpbm31 · Jul 3, 2012

baby panther's

I think I fixed the problem! I bought them a super small screen cage and had a small fan circulating air in the room cause it would get a little warm(almost stale air). After rinsing/flushing their eyes with warm ro water they've come back around as if nothing was ever wrong with them. I have 4 nice healthy babies but had 3 to die and 1 that didn't make it all the way out of the egg. I have 4 eggs left so I'm hoping the best for these four so I can at least get 8 babies from the clutch. I sold the female that laid these eggs and after the guy purchased her she laid him 30 more eggs 3 months later!!! I wish I would have kept her longer now!!

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