HALP! Eye Problems in my female veiled?

aangb3nder

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CHAM INFO:
Your Chameleon - Veiled, female, 2 and a half years.
Handling - Usually when I clean the cage or give her a bath. I take her out for a few minutes to ensure she is healthy and whatnot.
Feeding - 3 or 4 super worms everyday. I tried crickets but she couldn't catch them unless I beat them up.
Supplements - tetrafauna reptocal. It says it included calcium and vitamin D3. I dust lightly every other feeding.
Watering - I mist her cage thoroughly two to three times a day, I keep the humidity levels above 50%. Sometimes she drinks from the mistings, but she usually doesn't. I give her showers once ever couple of weeks, and I put ice on the top of her cage.
Fecal Description - She's never been tested for parasites. the only poop i see in her cage is a few days old, but it's a bit shrivelly so I'm not really sure as to whether or not i could provide a good and accurate description of it.

CAGE INFO:
Cage Type - It's a big screen and wood cage. The dimensions are something like 18 x 24 or something, I don't really recall what the actual dimensions are. Sometimes I feel like it's TOO big for her, though.
Lighting - her lights go on at 9 am and off at 9pm. I have a basking light by zoomed, its 75 watts and it's raised five-seven inches above her cage. I have two UVB bulbs. its exo-terra repti-glo, one is 5.0 26W uvb, and the other is a 10.0 26W uvb.
Temperature - Its 79 at the bottom of the cage, and86ish at the top of the cage, closest to the basking lamps. The lowest it's gotten to at night is the high 70s.
Humidity - I keep them above 50%, and I listed a description above as to what I do.
Plants - No live plants.
Placement - It's about a foot off the floor and next to my dresser behind my door, across from the bed.
Location - Live in Florida!

Current Problem - Her eyes have become a lot more sunken in than normal. Her left eye has got a bit of gunk in it, and I've wiped it out with a q-tip and warm water. For a couple of days while she was shedding and while I was out of town, the skin got caught over her eye and compressed it. As soon as I got back I gave her a room temperature/warm shower to help with her shedding, and gently wiped the excess shed off with a warm q-tip. Since then her eye has been a bit wonky. I was wondering if there was anything more to it than just a messed up eye because of a shed?

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You should only need 1 5.0 UVB bulb.

Supplements should be calcium w/o d3 and phos every feeding, calcium w d3 twice per month, and a multi vitamin twcie per month.

Super worms are not very nutritious and should not be used as a daily feeder.

Eye problems could be caused by a few things like too much UVB, vitamin deficiency, and infections. I would take her to the vet.
 
Thank you guys. So I should take out the 10.0 UVB bulb, get calcium without d3, and what sort of multivitamin should I use?

If not superworms, what else could I use? I don't care for using crickets only because she can't really catch them that well, and I've been told mealworms are fatty and no good. I gave her some horned worms before, but I don't know where else to get them other than online.

what do you mean by disco? XD
 
CHAM INFO:
Your Chameleon - Veiled, female, 2 and a half years.
Handling - Usually when I clean the cage or give her a bath. I take her out for a few minutes to ensure she is healthy and whatnot.
Feeding - 3 or 4 super worms everyday. I tried crickets but she couldn't catch them unless I beat them up.
Supplements - tetrafauna reptocal. It says it included calcium and vitamin D3. I dust lightly every other feeding.
Watering - I mist her cage thoroughly two to three times a day, I keep the humidity levels above 50%. Sometimes she drinks from the mistings, but she usually doesn't. I give her showers once ever couple of weeks, and I put ice on the top of her cage.
Fecal Description - She's never been tested for parasites. the only poop i see in her cage is a few days old, but it's a bit shrivelly so I'm not really sure as to whether or not i could provide a good and accurate description of it.

CAGE INFO:
Cage Type - It's a big screen and wood cage. The dimensions are something like 18 x 24 or something, I don't really recall what the actual dimensions are. Sometimes I feel like it's TOO big for her, though.
Lighting - her lights go on at 9 am and off at 9pm. I have a basking light by zoomed, its 75 watts and it's raised five-seven inches above her cage. I have two UVB bulbs. its exo-terra repti-glo, one is 5.0 26W uvb, and the other is a 10.0 26W uvb.
Temperature - Its 79 at the bottom of the cage, and86ish at the top of the cage, closest to the basking lamps. The lowest it's gotten to at night is the high 70s.
Humidity - I keep them above 50%, and I listed a description above as to what I do.
Plants - No live plants.
Placement - It's about a foot off the floor and next to my dresser behind my door, across from the bed.
Location - Live in Florida!

Current Problem - Her eyes have become a lot more sunken in than normal. Her left eye has got a bit of gunk in it, and I've wiped it out with a q-tip and warm water. For a couple of days while she was shedding and while I was out of town, the skin got caught over her eye and compressed it. As soon as I got back I gave her a room temperature/warm shower to help with her shedding, and gently wiped the excess shed off with a warm q-tip. Since then her eye has been a bit wonky. I was wondering if there was anything more to it than just a messed up eye because of a shed?

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Everyone else has given some great suggestions about the eye issue. As for trying to offer crix you may want to try cup feeding which will make it easier for you to feed something different. Take a look at the pic in my profile. They are easy to make. Let me know if you have any questions.
 
Thank you guys. So I should take out the 10.0 UVB bulb, get calcium without d3, and what sort of multivitamin should I use?

If not superworms, what else could I use? I don't care for using crickets only because she can't really catch them that well, and I've been told mealworms are fatty and no good. I gave her some horned worms before, but I don't know where else to get them other than online.

what do you mean by disco? XD

I think they meant discontinue! I use Rep-cal Herptivite (vitamins). You might want to try to get some Dubia Cockroaches. They don't smell like crickets do and they have comparable nutritional value! Don't buy ALOT because she may not like them either. I bought about 50 and my cham wouldn't even look at them!:rolleyes: You might want to place an ad on your local craigslist for feeder worms/roaches. Thats were I posted my roaches at. I agree with everyone else also on making a trip to the vet.
Hope this helped!
 
I feel like my Cham is experiencing some eye issues as well. I have putting Terramycin in my chams one eye. The vet and breeder both suggested this for any type of eye irritation or infection. It is like a soft gel that u rub over the chams eye with a Qtip. my Cham has been blinking his one eye more often and it kinda sinks in or something when he does it. I also see him rubbing his eye on a branch once in awhile too. So I was care and just tok him the vet and has him a check up and have his festal tested. I web recommend that medicine though
 
Thank you so much everyone! I took her to the vet and the vet says she's very healthy! They gave me vitamin/calcium dust to put on her food, and told me to use Replenish eye drops for her eye problems. He told me never to use a q-tip because fibers could get stuck in the eye, which is what I suspected lol.
 
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