black eye!?!?

pacificwynd

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hameleon Info:

* Your Chameleon - Female Veiled. Approx. 1.5 yrs. Had since April 09
* Handling - She will often crawl onto my hand during feeding time
* Feeding - Approx 4-5 medium crickets a day. Worms based on avail. at petstore. Gut loading with cricket feed from petstore.
* Supplements - Rep-Cal calcium every day. Rep-Cal Calcium w/ D3 once a week. Rep-Cal Herptivite once a month.
* Watering - Dripper on 3 times a day and one 20 min misting.
* Fecal Description - Urate is mostly white, very small amount of yellow. Consistent. Never been tested for parasites
* History - Last laid eggs end of May 2010


Cage Info:

* Cage Type - Screen. 6ft X 1.5ft X 1.5ft
* Lighting - 75W lamp and 50W UVB
* Temperature - 23C - 30C
* Humidity - up to 75 during misting
* Plants - Golden Pothos and Umbrella Tree
* Placement - Corner of Living Room
* Location - B.C. Canada

Current Problem - Just in the last hour all around her eye has turned black!! When i fed her this morning it was fine. I have seen her rubbing her on sticks in her cage every once in awhile. And sometimes one eye socket will be somewhat puffier than the other. I read that chams can store water in their eye sockets to help clean their eyes out. But why has it turned black? I was thinking that maybe she has bruised it by rubbing too hard....?? I dunno....
 
That is a new one for me, maybe a bite from a food item? Or as you said it could be from her rubbing. Sorry that is all I can offer.
 
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very hard to tell what that is cuz her eye aint showing really and swelling in the pics the best thing to do is keep misting has she recently went thru a shed??
 
It Kind of looks like shes just darkening that one spot, you know when females go gravid they turn a very very dark colour almost black, it looks just like its localized.
 
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