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Is she like this all the time, or just periodically?
its normal for them to bug out and roll their eyes now and then, to help clean them. It is not normal for the eyes to be bugged out all the time.
if she breaks the fiscus branches in her travels, it is possible to get the white irritating sap in her eyes. A flush with saline might help.
If you are supplementing and gutloading her food the same as other female panthers chameleons, its unlikely to be a vitamin deficiency.
has a vet had a look at her eyes?
If you are supplementing and gutloading her food the same as other female panthers chameleons, its unlikely to be a vitamin deficiency.
Avoiding vitamin A deficiency via insect gutload supplementation essentially does not work. There is also no vitamin powder that delivers vitamin A adequately. I feel that there is no basis for your conclusion that it is "unlikely" vitamin A. It may not be, but not based upon your stated reason.
I said unlikely IF the OPs other female chameleons are gutloaded and supplemented the same way. And as you know, there are several of us who use no pre-formed vitamin A supplement and know that gutloading can and does work fine.
Annem - be sure to answer kinyonga's follow-up questions - it would be important to know these things before you start adding Jim's vitamin A oil.
Also, what did the vet recommend as treatment?
Im not wanting to debate this with you, again.
We're both close to being on the same page anyhow. We both agree vitamin A is important, we're just not entirely agreed on the best methods of ensuring its provision. right?
I think the main difference is that I dont like oil and prefer gutload and bug variety, and think there are benefits to beta carotene, whereas I believe you do like oil as a treatment and arent sold on beta carotene.
I think knowing if the supplements the OP currently uses contain pre-formed vitamin A or not would be useful to know, either way.
tangent - I've been reading on some european forums about eye issues being, they believe, caused by lack of B vitamins.
Jim have you ever heard of vitamin B being an issue?
Jim...what chameleons or other lizards have you raised in fairly large numbers besides panthers?