One Eyed Nosy Be

[PIXELPUNK10010]

Current Problem?: Has been keeping his left eye closed too much. If he is hunting or intimidated he opens both eyes, but prefers to keep the left shut any other time. There is no sagging of the eye lid, and no pussy seepage. When open it looks healthy. There my be a slightly darker tint to the iris, but too subtle for me to really tell. He eats and drinks really well and maintains good color.

Species?: Nosy Be.
Age?: 5-6 Months.
Sex?: Male.
How long has it been in your care?: 3 Days.
How often do you handle your chameleon?: Rarely so far.
What are you feeding your chameleon?: Small Crickets and Silk Worms.
What amount are you feeding?: 3 Crickets and a Silk Worm.
What is the schedule?: Every Day.
How are you gut-loading your feeders?: Carrots, Yellow Squash and Apples.
What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?: Rep-Cal no D3 once so far. Miner-all no D3 havent given yet.
What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long do you mist?: Misting regularly through out the day with hand mister..
Do you see your chameleon drinking?: Yes.
Fecal Description?: Black (slightly green maybe) with Small amounts of white on the end or side..
Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?: Unknown.
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you?: Just bought him from the breeder at the reptile show..
Cage Type - What are the dimensions?: Screen Enclosure 1ft across and deep, 3ft tall On a stand to keep at eye level..
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?: Reptiglow 15\" 14w 5.0uvb, 50watt spot basking lamp. Lights on at 8:00am basking light off at 5pm unless he is still using it. UV off by 9 or 10.
Temperature - What temp range have you create (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?: Lowest overnight temp 67. Havent measured temp range or spot temp, but havent had any problems with basking.
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?: Its naturally humid here but I am misting the cage regularly throughout the day..
Where is your cage located? Is it near any fans, air vents, or high traffic areas? At what height is the top of the cage relative to your room floor?: Medium traffic area top at about 5ft. No vents or fans, some natural sun from back slider when the sun is actually showing.
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?:Cut Branches of mullberry and umbrella plant. Clean, no pesticides..
Location - Where are you geographically located?: Pacifica, CA.

 

[whitespyder]

im actually having the same problem with my chameleon. do you seeing him "flushing" his eye? it would look like hes moving it around while its closed. do you know if he shed recently? it could be a piece of skin that got caught in his eye turret. you can always use saline solution to flush whatever debris out of his eye. https://www.chameleonforums.com/saline-solution-35457/#post327298

im not sure if mulberry is a safe plant for chams. i dont know much about mulberry trees but if it has sap seeping from it anywhere (perhaps where you cut the branches) it might have gotten into his eye and is irritating it. heres a list of safe plants for chams: https://www.chameleonforums.com/plants/ i would assume that its fine since silkworms eat mulberry leaves and are common feeders but ill let someone else chime in and give you their input.

 

[lietf001]

It doesn't looks very health to me. What u got for him is all correct. I think keep him feeder and put under sun for few days then have a warm bath, he should be fine. He may just didn't received enough UVB from breeder hands. Then no strengh, as long as he eat and drink. Put him under sun with good ventilation. It will never bad happen to them.

 

[Elizadolots]

Florida Chams lists Mulberry as safe. http://www.flchams.com/safe_plant_list.asp

I like whitespyder's idea of rinsing the eye with saline solution. You might want to put a dripper on the cage so he has more constant access to water, though the urates are white, so hydration seems good.

Can you contact the breeder to ask if this is something he'd seen before with this chameleon?

Has he been doing this consistently since you brought him home? I sort of take it that you didn't notice him doing this at the show, but then shows are stressful.

 

[pantherlover]

could be an eye problem. could also be some kind of infection or even something to do with supplimenting for that matter.how much natural sun does it? get i would grab some reptivite & some calcium with d3. add it to the supplimenting biweekly or less. if it doesnt seem like its hard for the cham to open its eye, than i might lean towards a suppliment issue. could also be a lack of uvb from a previous keeper. if its only nbeen 3 days in your care but its eating and drinking fine, jusy wait it out & see what may happen. monitor closely though, if it gets worse maybe visit a vet.

 

[PIXELPUNK10010]

im actually having the same problem with my chameleon. do you seeing him "flushing" his eye? it would look like hes moving it around while its closed. do you know if he shed recently? it could be a piece of skin that got caught in his eye turret. you can always use saline solution to flush whatever debris out of his eye. https://www.chameleonforums.com/saline-solution-35457/#post327298

im not sure if mulberry is a safe plant for chams. i dont know much about mulberry trees but if it has sap seeping from it anywhere (perhaps where you cut the branches) it might have gotten into his eye and is irritating it. heres a list of safe plants for chams: https://www.chameleonforums.com/plants/ i would assume that its fine since silkworms eat mulberry leaves and are common feeders but ill let someone else chime in and give you their input.

I have seen him flushing his eye. Even this morning when he got his first mist, a let a little hit him and he reacted by opening the eye and flushing it around several times.

I will try a saline solution and see how that helps.

UPDATE:The breeder said that he came from a higher humidity and recommended keeping him extra warm and mist him with warm water often, or put him in a warm shower a few times a day. He said that the mist and shower will prompt him to clean his eyes out and should help take care of the problem.

 

[PIXELPUNK10010]

I just wanted to update everyone and see if there was further advice.

I started with the breeders suggestion by putting Master Fade on a ficus in the shower and letting him clean out his eyes. There were immediate results with him opening his eye and keeping it open for a while. It looked as if there was a bit of debris on the edge of his eyelid, but after a while it was gone.

Later in the evening he started closing the eye again. Today we repeated the process and had the same effect. It looked as if the debris was on his eyelid in the same spot, he started opening the eye, the debris seemed to disappear and later his eye was closing again.

My wife brought home some sort of saline product but it didn't look like it was the right thing so I have to get something different tomorrow.