Jayden Rice
New Member
This is Comma. My boyfriend and I bought him from a Petco about 3 weeks ago, and we think he is about 2 and a half months old. When we purchased him, they said he was a girl, but after some research, we decided he was actually a boy because of the bumps on his hind feet. For the past week he has been holding one of his eyes closed. He also had symptoms of an URI, so we took him to the vet, and they prescribed us anti-biotics. They had to order them in, so we still have not received them. We increased the temperature and amount of times we mist his cage per recommendation of the vet. We've also been using saline and antibiotic ointment on the eye nightly, but it doesn't seem to be fixing the problem. All other symptoms of the infection have cleared besides the one eye. We use a 150 watt ceramic heat emitter in his cage, because it is quite cold in our house, and a 100 watt did not keep his temps high enough. Ambient is 80-85 and basking temp is 95, but he rarely basks. We also use a 5.0 UVB bulb. He offer him calcium dusted, gut loaded crickets and a single meal worm a day, but typically he only eats the mealworm. We also hand water him because we rarely see him drink and his cage seems to dry quickly. His other eye also seemed slightly sunken in one day, so we decided hand watering him was a must. Is there any advice someone on here can recommend we try to fix his poor eyeball? The pictures I've attached are of both of his eyes. The one closed is the concerning one.