He prefers to use only one eye/Please help

[ebonebby]

Your Chameleon - Nosy Be Panther Chameleon, 3 y/o
Feeding - 8 Lg live crickets a day or a few extra if I miss a day, meal worms every now and then
Supplements - Repashy Calcium Plus powder for every feeding, unless it's meal worms
Watering - I just got the Reptirain misting system and it's pretty cool. Before that I had a chameleon jungle gym that I made for the shower. I would aim most of the water over the jungle gym so the warm water would mist down. I would normally have him in there for 20-30 min or until the water got cold. Ill include a picture.
Fecal Description - Is this related? If it is I'll check.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - mesh screen cage - Height 3'10"x1'10"x1'6"
Lighting? UVB 5.0 and heat lamp. Both from Petsmart. Both on 7am-7pm wall timer.
Temperature - I don't have temp gauges in my tank but there's a bunch of branches at different heights so it's all up to him to decide his favorite basking and non basking spots.
Humidity - No humidity gauge either, but I have Reptirain so that should keep it pretty humid in there.
Plants - Pothos
Placement - Corner of my room away from traffic, fans and air vents. The cage is on a 2 ft tall table
Location - North Florida!

Current Problem - He has been closing left eye constantly for the past few months. Half to most of the time I see him his one eye is closed. He acts like he only needs his right one. I thought this problem would fix its self but I just recently realized his tongue target accuracy was waaaaay off. From a couple inches away he would miss by a couple of inches. Not even close! That freaked me out. That's why I'm here. Any help is appreciated. Thank you

 

[ZiggyStardust]

Welcome to the forum.

A few things about your husbandry first.

Your temps - you cannot let a chameleon decide which temperature is best - they have no idea. You need to be regulating and controlling the temperatures in your cage yourself, making sure that the basking spot is between the mid to high eighties and no higher. You also need a humidity guage, you cannot rely on hoping that the conditions are right. Panthers need quite high humidity and you need to make sure that you are hitting this.

Supplementation- you need to be dusting feeders with plain phosphorous free calcium at every feeding, calcium with added D3 once a month and a broad spectrum multi vitamin supplement once a month.

Having read your initial post and the fact that you haven't said that you are using a multivitamin supplement at all, I would suggest that the problem with your chameleon's eye is a Vitamin A deficiency.

However, and please don't take this the wrong way, but I am struggling to understand why you would see you chameleon having problems with closing one of his eyes for a period of months and not take him to a vet?

These creatures can be very delicate if you don't get their husbandry more or less spot on, so my advice to you would be to get him or her to a qualified herp vet without any further delay, given that this problem has been manifesting itself for many weeks now. It may well be an eye infection, which obviously is not going to fix itself, and you have said yourself that your chameleon cannot catch its food because it cannot focus with both eyes.

Please, take it to a vet and get it treated. You must know yourself that this is what is needed.

 

[ebonebby]

I went out and bought the multivitamin, calcium +D3, and phosphorous free powder from Petsmart. Thank you, his health is very important to me. I'm going to call around for chameleon vets tomorrow and make an appointment.

One more question, what should I set my misting machine timer to? I have it for every 3 hours for 30 seconds, only in the daytime.

 

[leedragon]

have you a light in the bottom?