Can misting bother their eyes?

[mattj]

This morning I was misting my chams. I just recently started hand misting my veiled again. I wasn't doing it for a while because I have a mist king setup on his cage. I haven't set them up on my new jacksons so I've been doing it by hand. And figured while I'm doing them I might as well give my veiled some more.

Honestly with the recent mistings is the only time I actually ever really see him drink. I know he's hydrated, I just never really see him drink.

My question is really can the mist spray bother their eyes if it gets in there? I know it looks like chams don't like getting misted as they tend to turn away, but I look at it as they have to get rained on in the wild. The main reason I ask is because as I was spraying him, I noticed a bright red membrane looking thing go over his eyeball and then go away. Kind of like a second inner eyelid or something. After that he has his eye closed for a minute or two.

I just bought a new mist bottle that pushes out a lot of water. I alternate between misting them and the foliage. And I'm certainly not right on top of them with the spray.

Is this normal? I've never noticed it. And I know they can do some funky stuff with their eyes to clean them out and use mistings to aid in that. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[SaintJimmy]

Maybe try warming/heating the water so the chameleon is not shocked by it. Misting from directly above with hot water is what both of mine enjoy.

They're picky about water but once you get it just right, like mine, they'll probably sit with their face in the water and blink and drink off their face.

It probably does bother their eyes to some extent (think getting water sprayed in your face every day) but it's just water. In fact it helps them flush out their eyes.

 

[mattj]

Ok. I do actually use pretty hot water. Once it comes out of the mister it cools down to just warm.

I was microwaving poland spring but switched to just hot tap water. I can't really go from above because the cage is too tall. But as long as its not doing any damage. Like I said the redness had me worried.

 

[Thegreatfonz]

No if anything it helps them. I make sure I hand mist my cham at least once a day with warm water so he can rinse his eyes out. I can tell he reacts differently with the warm water mist he finds it soothing for his eyes whereas when my mistking sprays he usually dodges it but even if he's in its path he doesn't roll his eyes around like when he does with warm water. The red you saw in his eye is him just rolling it around in the socket it's normal and chameleons love to do it.

 

[mattj]

Ok cool. Thanks.

 

[SSimsswiSS]

I don't think getting sprayed in the eye is the way to go.