Help! eye infection

[DavidBuchan]

Excellent news . Looking forward to the pictures so don't be too long . Get well soon Apollo.

 

[kinyonga]

Glad to hear he's doing better!
Will he be able to see in the end or is he blind for good?

 

[Leroux2008]

O thats great news to hear that hes doing better! The pictures were very worrying.

 

[Sammyb25]

The vet said he's hoping he will see in the end but its a possibility he could be blind

 

[kinyonga]

Fingers crossed that he will see!

 

[Leroux2008]

Aw I'll keep him in my thoughts. I really hope he recovers.

 

[Sammyb25]

Thamks you guys! I'll definately keep you posted.

 

[Angie's Leon]

Howdy,

What part of the USA are you located?

Although I'm leaning towards an eye infection, if your ZooMed CFL happens to be a 10.0 unit AND it was old stock when you bought it then it might be from the "bad" phosphor formula batches produced before they corrected it. Their 5.0 CFLs were affected to a lesser extent. One way to tell if you have the corrected phosphor formula is to look at the instruction sheet date. The bad CFLs (only the CFLs were affected, not the linears) had an instruction sheet dated 12-06 (Dec 2006) and the corrected CFL sheets were dated 01-09 or 03-09. There are no dates in-between '06 and '09 so if it is '09 then you are safe. One note however; I was talking with a ZooMed representative and she mentioned that they did stuff some new boxes with the old sheets not realizing that we used that new sheet as a means of identification . I let her know how important it was to have the right instruction sheet/date for identification purposes .

The dates are located at the bottom, right corner of the instruction sheet. The boxes have some differences (go find a post by Summoner12) too.

Good 5.0 Instruction sheet: http://www.zoomed.com/Library/ProductDBFiles/reptisun5cf.pdf

Good 10.0 instruction sheet: http://www.zoomed.com/Library/ProductDBFiles/reptisun10cf.pdf

Regarding the possibility of an eye infection: Are you using an ophthalmic antibiotic (clear liquid eye drop dripped directly into the eye)? A common one is Gentamicin betamethasone and there are other good ones too. My hope is that the "crust" really is infectious "gunk" and not a damaged cornea . Eye infections usually clear-up within the first few days of treatment (complete the entire prescribed regiment). If you have husbandry errors (why do they always blame the husbands ), infections will persist.

Post a well lit, well focused (or as good as you can take ) photo of the eyes. If your camera has a "macro" mode, use it. That will allow you to focus while getting less than a foot away. Get the focus right and we'll do the zooming if necessary . Most point-and-shoot digital cameras use a flower symbol for the macro setting. Keep shooting until you get it right .

Here's a good eye for reference:

Here's an example of damaged eyes:

Left Eye Corneal scarring:

Right Eye Corneal scarring:

What happened after treatment? Mine has the same, I think from sitting by mercury vapor bulbs, waaaaa, so upset

 

[Beman]

What happened after treatment? Mine has the same, I think from sitting by mercury vapor bulbs, waaaaa, so upset

This is a very old thread hun. You would be better off to post your own for assistance. The original poster has not been on the forum in years.