Puffy eyes

MissSkittles said:
Aww…breaks my heart when they are sick. 🥺 Poor baby girl.
Nose crusts may be snalt, which is nothing to worry about.

The eye crusts are either drainage or shedding - hard for me to tell which, but it looks more like shedding.
For the bsfl, they don’t need to be dusted with calcium. One of the reason why we dust with calcium at all, is because just about all insect feeders are higher in phosphorus than calcium, which kind of cancels the calcium out. So we add calcium to them. Bsfl are higher in calcium than phosphorus so they don’t need to be dusted at all. As for their movement, if you lightly mist them with water, they will move like crazy. They are more sluggish when dry.
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Good to know thanks. I know I feel bad for Marge too. Also I messed up and bought the wrong thing not silk worms😒 so I bought real worms and idk when they come but yea
 
I'm certainly not a vet, but just IMO, I think the eye crust may be excess skin from when it was swollen. Sort of like when you get a blister and then the swelling goes down.

I'd recommend the thrive feeding station I mentioned. The only way crickets get out is if they're bigger than 3/4"... Which is too big for my Chams anyway, they get freaked out by the bigger crickets and just leave them alone.

I also feed my BSFL vegetable scraps, so they're usually super active. I keep them in a tote bin with a bag of organic dirt, and then buy 1000 small, 1000 medium, and 500 large and they last for 6 months. I think the flies breed in there, because I still find suuuuper small ones after 6 months too. And if the Chams don't go for the larvae, just leave the BSFL alone without feeding, and they'll go for the flies!

This one is just nearing 5 months, and there's still probably over 500 larvae.
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ehdee6 said:
I'm certainly not a vet, but just IMO, I think the eye crust may be excess skin from when it was swollen. Sort of like when you get a blister and then the swelling goes down.

I'd recommend the thrive feeding station I mentioned. The only way crickets get out is if they're bigger than 3/4"... Which is too big for my Chams anyway, they get freaked out by the bigger crickets and just leave them alone.

I also feed my BSFL vegetable scraps, so they're usually super active. I keep them in a tote bin with a bag of organic dirt, and then buy 1000 small, 1000 medium, and 500 large and they last for 6 months. I think the flies breed in there, because I still find suuuuper small ones after 6 months too. And if the Chams don't go for the larvae, just leave the BSFL alone without feeding, and they'll go for the flies!

This one is just nearing 5 months, and there's still probably over 500 larvae.
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Wow! Thank you! Next time I stop by petco I’ll look at the thrive feeder
 
Her eyes are appearing less bulgy than your photos from before. When you have a chameleon with funky eyes, seeing shed around it looks even more alarming. My guy, I always feel anxious when the skin color around his weird eye changes, and then relief when it's merely shedding.

How is she behaving currently? Keeping her eyes open through the day? Better appetite?
 
LizardLurkin said:
Her eyes are appearing less bulgy than your photos from before. When you have a chameleon with funky eyes, seeing shed around it looks even more alarming. My guy, I always feel anxious when the skin color around his weird eye changes, and then relief when it's merely shedding.

How is she behaving currently? Keeping her eyes open through the day? Better appetite?
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Yea she is eating basking keeping normal confortable colors and eating a good amount. And eyes are open throughout the day except at night duh and when I put drops in
 
Ok guys I got some crazy stuff. Last night at 11 when I went to check on Marge it looked like she was staring at me. So I was just like weird but when I looked closely her eye was completely white like a shark attacking something. I looked at the other eye and it was shut but this one was wide open and white. I immediately misted her and she started drinking and closed her eye. I hope that it was just a stuck shed because her head is almost done shedding…only her head shedded tho. I have to go to school this morning but when I get back at 3:30 I am going to check her eye. It looked kinda rolled back or if something covered most of her eye but not the back edges they were still black which makes me think that it was a shed. The prescription drops I hope will help flush out any shed. So yea that’s me crazy story of the night!
 
Also I just found an American giant millipede in her enclosure and I think it is from the fern because it was outside for a night before I brought it in. My plan is to remove it tomorrow clean it with soap and jet water to remove the dirt. Repot it and make sure to remove all bugs so I can put it back in. THEN I will vacuum the enclosure bottom to remove the bugs down there and clean it out.
 
Her nose looks a little clogged but I could be wrong. I think it was just shed. She ate 2 Dubai roaches so I think my plan is to just put roaches in with a few meal worms in
 

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Hey guys Marge’s grow light broke and I forgot which one to use but would this work? I think it’s the same one I had before. Also could a whites tree frog also use it? I used my spare for Marge so now they don’t have one
 

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