Eye problem???

[thebog]

Yesterday I received my 3 month old nosy be, Baja, and he seems to have settled in nicely. Today I noticed he seems to keep his left eye closed and his right eye opened. I have been monitoring him for 20 minutes and the only time he opened his left eye was when I gently moved the cage to see if it would cause him to open it. He closed it within a minute. Should I be worried???

Here's a pic, his eye looks healthy to me. There's no pus or sign of disease.
The pic is kind of blurry, I'll take a new one when he moves somewhere brighter

 

[ReptiGeek]

What is your light set up and watering schedule?

You might want to consider filling the How to Ask For Help forum to help us better understand and diagnose the situation:

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species, sex, and age of your chameleon. How long has it been in your care?
Handling - How often do you handle your chameleon?
Feeding - What are you feeding your cham? What amount? What is the schedule? How are you gut-loading your feeders?
Supplements - What brand and type of calcium and vitamin products are you dusting your feeders with and what is the schedule?
Watering - What kind of watering technique do you use? How often and how long to you mist? Do you see your chameleon drinking?
Fecal Description - Briefly note colors and consistency from recent droppings. Has this chameleon ever been tested for parasites?
History - Any previous information about your cham that might be useful to others when trying to help you.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - Describe your cage (Glass, Screen, Combo?) What are the dimensions?
Lighting - What brand, model, and types of lighting are you using? What is your daily lighting schedule?
Temperature - What temp range have you created (cage floor to basking spot)? Lowest overnight temp? How do you measure these temps?
Humidity - What are your humidity levels? How are you creating and maintaining these levels? What do you use to measure humidity?
Plants - Are you using live plants? If so, what kind?
Placement - 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?
Location - Where are you geographically located?

Current Problem - The current problem you are concerned about.

 

[NHenn]

Closing one or both eyes during the day is usually a sign something isn't right. Please fill out what Travis posted so we can be sure to help and make sure everything is fine.

 

[thebog]

Chameleon Info:
Your Chameleon - The species--nosy be panther, sex--male, age--13 weeks. He has been in my care for 3 days now
Handling - Have yet to handle him. He runs away from me if I put my hand out to him to touch him. I pet him once and he didn't seem to mind.
Feeding - So far I've only fed him crickets and he snipes them from everywhere. Today he ate around 9-11 crickets, yesterday about 5 that I know of. I typically feed around 6pm. Gut-loading so far has only consisted of carrots and flukers cricket gel stuff)
Supplements - Zoo-med Reptivite with D3. Zoo-med Calcium w/out D3. Exo-terra Calcium w/out D3 (meant to buy w/ D3). I also have dinofuel, the package was a must buy when it said it enhances color (possibly just a marketing tactic? Does anyone know if it really works). Tomorrow I'm buying Exo-terra Calcium with D3 at petsmart. Yesterday I dusted with Zoo-med calcium and today I dusted with the Reptivite. Not exactly sure on a schedule yet, I need a little help with this part, so it'd be nice if someone could tell me a good dusting regime for a young panther chameleon. And is it more practical to gut-load or dust dinofuel, and how often should I feed my chameleon dinofuel.
Watering - Typically I use a spray bottle 3-5 times a day. I try to mist once or twice a day until the bottle is empty (reptifogger -- 15ish minutes I think). I see him drinking all the time.
Fecal Description - Has pooped daily. Always brown. Consistency is comparable to hard chewed gum (if that makes sense. It's not really soft but not hard). Never been tested for parasites.
History - None, have only had him for 3 days.

Cage Info:
Cage Type - 2x2x4 foot screen cage
Lighting - Reptisun 5.0 18inch for uvb. 75 watt zoo-med reptibasking light for heat. Lights are on at noon and off at midnight.
Temperature - Temperature has been bugging me. I have an analog guage halfway up the side of the cage, and I use a digital thermometer to find basking temp and random temperatures around the cage. Basking gets up to 90, which I think is a bit high. The analog gauge reads around 68 at midway whereas the digital reads 72.0 (which one should I go with here). The bottom of the cage is 71.8 (digital reading). Lowest overnight temp is around 60 (should I invest in a night heat lamp?)
Humidity - Humidity hovers between 45 and 55%. Wisconsin is quite dry, but I heard it's beneficial to have a lower humidity as long as it's above 40% because bacteria won't grow as quick. I use an analog gauge.
Plants - 1 live plant and 1 fake (plan on replacing in the near future). The live plant is a weeping fig (ficus benjamina)
Placement - Cage is in my room on top of a desk. The cage is elevated a little less than 3 feet off the ground, so the top of the cage is roughly 7 feet from the floor. It isn't near any fans or air vents and is a low traffic area.
Location - southeastern Wisconsin, USA. 10 miles from Lake Michigan.

Current Problem - Yesterday I noticed his left eye was closed for long periods of time while his right eye was open. He would only open it when eating and when I would gently shook the cage to see if he would open it. Today I haven't really noticed him keeping an eye shut, but maybe he was doing it when I wasn't around.


If you read all of that you'll notice I have many questions. So if anyone could provide answers to the questions and/or a reason for his eye, I would appreciate it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Reptilelover14]

My Chameleon had 18 babies and a lot of them got the eye closing thing and you need to every hour gently spray their eye open with a soft spraying bottle.