Eye Bulge, What the Heck!

[Peachypink]

So I came in to feed my Panther Cham, he is 4 months old, and when I walked up to the cage his eye was doing this crazy eye bulge move. I was as if he was popping it in and out, rolling it around, it looked like something from a sifi movie as if there was a finger moving under the skin. As soon as he saw me it went back to normal and he looked at me like, "oh, hey, you here to feed me." I was so bizarre.

Considering his reaction to me and that he is acting totally fine, I am assuming this is normal, like he was stretching the muscles in the eye or something.

Has anyone ever seen their cham do this?

 

[RyU]

Probably just had something in his eye.

 

[Peachypink]

I'm trying to come up with the right words to describe it but nothing does. It was like his eye look back and the base of it bulged out like a ballon and then rolled around.

So, have you seen this before then?

 

[Chase]

I think RyU is right. This is a common way for them to remove the stuff from their eye. Have you seen him do it again since you first saw it?

Chase

 

[camimom]

As was stated this is a normal thing.

CHams bulge and rotate their eyes to remove debris from in the eye turret, or to lubricate the eyes after a misting.

So long as the eye goes back to normal, the cham is fine.

 

[Peachypink]

Great, thank you....

No I have not seen him do it again.

I was pretty sure it was a normal thing because of the way he acted after but it is always nice to hear if other, more experienced keepers, have seen it. You guys are a wealth of information!!

 

[dboddy31]

I had the exact same thing happen to my Cham tonight! He is a 4 month old panther. It scared the crap out of me. It was buldging and blew up like a ballon and his eye was popping around crazy !

 

[Lizzie The Chameleon]

I had the exact same thing happen to my Cham tonight! He is a 4 month old panther. It scared the crap out of me. It was buldging and blew up like a ballon and his eye was popping around crazy !

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