Female Veiled Keeps 1 Eye Closed

[Tanneregan]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled Female, about 1 year old. Owned her for a little over 6 months
Handling - We try 1x per week. But only lets us handle 1x every 2 or 3 weeks.
Feeding - Crickets and meal worms. 6 Crickets & 2 worms/day. Every morning about 30 minutes after her lights turn on. Basic flukers orange cubes & high calcium cricket diet, bananas, apples, carrots, etc.
Supplements - Flukers calcium w/ d3. 1x per month.
Watering - Fogger that runs 30 min every 2 hours. Hand mist 3x per day. Never see drink
Fecal Description - Fecal is brown & wet, not overly wet. Urine has recently turned a bright yellow.
History - When we put her into her new cage she got EXTREMELY territorial wont let us open the cage without hiding in the back corner or hissing. She has been in this cage for over 2 months now. Prior to that she was completely find and came to us to be held. We only handle her when we need to clean or fix part of the cage. Once she is on us she is completely fine.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen, 18x18x36
Lighting - Exoterra 75w Night. Exoterra 75w heating & Exoterra 26w UV
Temperature - Basking 90, Floor 75. Lowest overnight 65. Measure with on cage thermometer.
Humidity - 30 to 50%. Fogger runs 30 minutes ever 2 hours. Hand spray 3x a day. In cage gauge
Plants - Live, Umbrella Plant & Dracanea
Placement - On top of a small cabinate. opposite corner of the room as the vent. In lowest traffic area of house. Top of cage is about 4 feet off the ground.
Location - Northern Utah

Current Problem -

We noticed a few days ago that she was keeping only 1 eye open. We thought it could have to do with dehydration, due to the yellow urine so we let her soak in water yesterday for over 15 minutes. Today she is still the same, doesnt look much better. Did a bit more research and saw that it could be a Vitamin A deficiency so I bought some pills and did as suggested on a different thread. Some suggestions would be nice.

-Tanner

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[midcoastchameleon]

Something is most likely stuck in her eye. From the pictures it seems as she is sucking it in, witch is a way to clean it out, however, its usually brief. Frequent warm misting sessions and hopefully she will open it up a bit. Try a warm shower for a good amount of time. Hydration and natural sunlight do wonders for them.

 

[ataraxia]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - Veiled Female, about 1 year old. Owned her for a little over 6 months
Handling - We try 1x per week. But only lets us handle 1x every 2 or 3 weeks.
Feeding - Crickets and meal worms. 6 Crickets & 2 worms/day. Every morning about 30 minutes after her lights turn on. Basic flukers orange cubes & high calcium cricket diet, bananas, apples, carrots, etc.
Supplements - Flukers calcium w/ d3. 1x per month. Plain calcium shoudl be used at most feeding, Calcium with D3 twice a month and a multivitamin twice a month.
Watering - Fogger that runs 30 min every 2 hours. Hand mist 3x per day. Never see drink You hand mist for how long? Yellow urates indicate a need for more water.
Fecal Description - Fecal is brown & wet, not overly wet. Urine has recently turned a bright yellow.
History - When we put her into her new cage she got EXTREMELY territorial wont let us open the cage without hiding in the back corner or hissing. She has been in this cage for over 2 months now. Prior to that she was completely find and came to us to be held. We only handle her when we need to clean or fix part of the cage. Once she is on us she is completely fine.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Screen, 18x18x36
Lighting - Exoterra 75w Night. Exoterra 75w heating & Exoterra 26w UV No night light is needed.
Temperature - Basking 90, Floor 75. Lowest overnight 65. Measure with on cage thermometer. I would venture to say your basking spot is much higher than this. A 75 watt cranks out some heat. A thermometer on the side of the cage is not monitoring temps correctly. You need a digital therm with a probe that you can place on the highest branch/vine directly under the light.
Humidity - 30 to 50%. Fogger runs 30 minutes ever 2 hours. Hand spray 3x a day. In cage gauge
Plants - Live, Umbrella Plant & Dracanea
Placement - On top of a small cabinate. opposite corner of the room as the vent. In lowest traffic area of house. Top of cage is about 4 feet off the ground.
Location - Northern Utah

Current Problem -

We noticed a few days ago that she was keeping only 1 eye open. We thought it could have to do with dehydration, due to the yellow urine so we let her soak in water yesterday for over 15 minutes. Today she is still the same, doesnt look much better. Did a bit more research and saw that it could be a Vitamin A deficiency so I bought some pills and did as suggested on a different thread. Some suggestions would be nice.

-Tanner

Dehydration, soaking is a good idea with some reptiles but truly isnt efficient with chameleons. Id recommend you giving her longer showers as mentioned above. Even trying a shower chamber would be a good idea.

Next, i would get her some vitamins on her next feeders.