Dave Weldon
Avid Member
Howdy Dan,
We should probably get a "back-fill" of history info of the situation along with the usual: https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/ info
. Depending on the history, I wouldn't rule out eye infections or even general stress for the moment. It will be useful to know the overall room humidity. Chameleons that are "good" drinkers might do ok with short misting sessions while picky drinkers often do better with 5-10-15 minute misting sessions in order to trigger their drinking process. As was mentioned, drying out between sessions minimizes microbial growth. If your room humidity is between 40% and 60% then I would suspect that the humidity level isn't the main source of the eye closures. If your vet will supply it, you could try Gentamicin eye drops. You can use a hypo/needle to more easily squirt a small drop right onto the eyeball from inches away. Although Gentamicin is not a cure-all for all types of eye infections, it offers a reasonable chance to eliminate one potential reason for these eye closures. I'm also not forgetting that you have two chameleons and each is only closing one eye . My experience is that this is more often not an eye infection but related to an environmental stress condition (or some other entirely different illness). When it isn’t an eye infection, think of one eye and then two eyes being closed as sort of the equivalent of a human wincing in pain. Post photos of the entire room showing the enclosures and their locations as well as more photos showing the enclosure interiors. What may be required is to eliminate as many deviations from the "golden reference" Panther setup in order to eliminate potential sources of the problem. Think of it sort of like re-imaging your PC after an infection .
Typical example of Gentamicin (usually prescription): http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9721
We should probably get a "back-fill" of history info of the situation along with the usual: https://www.chameleonforums.com/how-ask-help-66/ info
. Depending on the history, I wouldn't rule out eye infections or even general stress for the moment. It will be useful to know the overall room humidity. Chameleons that are "good" drinkers might do ok with short misting sessions while picky drinkers often do better with 5-10-15 minute misting sessions in order to trigger their drinking process. As was mentioned, drying out between sessions minimizes microbial growth. If your room humidity is between 40% and 60% then I would suspect that the humidity level isn't the main source of the eye closures. If your vet will supply it, you could try Gentamicin eye drops. You can use a hypo/needle to more easily squirt a small drop right onto the eyeball from inches away. Although Gentamicin is not a cure-all for all types of eye infections, it offers a reasonable chance to eliminate one potential reason for these eye closures. I'm also not forgetting that you have two chameleons and each is only closing one eye . My experience is that this is more often not an eye infection but related to an environmental stress condition (or some other entirely different illness). When it isn’t an eye infection, think of one eye and then two eyes being closed as sort of the equivalent of a human wincing in pain. Post photos of the entire room showing the enclosures and their locations as well as more photos showing the enclosure interiors. What may be required is to eliminate as many deviations from the "golden reference" Panther setup in order to eliminate potential sources of the problem. Think of it sort of like re-imaging your PC after an infection .Typical example of Gentamicin (usually prescription): http://www.drsfostersmith.com/product/prod_display.cfm?pcatid=9721
