MangoTango
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does this look wrong to anyone?
swollen eye / eye bags? idk what to call it
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does this look wrong to anyone?
MangoTango
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calcium every feeding and d3 without calcium every other sunday
Lindasjackson
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Yup! Those vines you have in there are known to cause problems because the covering of the vines breaks up over time and when chams rub their faces on them it gets into the eyes
Can you post pics of the exact ones your using please. and are both eyes looking like this?
MangoTango
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I haven’t had a problem before and she doesn’t rub her eyes on it. I have a camera set up I can see everything she’s done throughout the day
MangoTango
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only the one eye I think. and it looked fine yesterday. this is yesterday : I also have these eye drops IF u think I should use them, but i haven’t yet
No do not use the eye drops...
Ok and with the supplements are you using the reptivite every other week?
MangoTango
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okay! I won’t use them. yes once every other week
Ok then supplementation is correct... I always check this first because incorrect supplementation can lead to eye issues like this. @Lindasjackson is absolutely correct about using the black jungle vines with chameleons. They are not recommended because of the tiny pieces that come off. Honestly they are absolutely an issue waiting to happen. These really should be replaced with either real branches or flukers fake vines.
Per those eye drops. Absolutely do not use for a chameleon. They have vitamin A in them which is not something we would want to pour into the chams eye.
If she has something stuck in the eye you can increase morning and evening misting sessions. This is in the hopes that if something is stuck she is then able to clean her eye to dislodge it.
MangoTango
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okay! it’s evening here so i’m going to give her a long misting
MangoTango
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I do have a ficus lyrata but the sap doesn’t really come off the leaves it’s only when it’s broken.
MangoTango
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but they do look swollen right?
MangoTango
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update on the eyes! the same day I noticed she chomped on her ficus lyrata which has sap, I figured maybe when she bit down the sap irritated her eyes. replaced the plant with a monstera. here’s her eyes today. some days they look normal, other not so much. not really swollen, almost sunken in actually, but a lot of wrinkles. her urate yesterday was completely white so she isn’t dehydrated. what do we think ?
MangoTango
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MissSkittles
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I don’t think her eyes look sunken in so much as she still has some puffiness around them. There is a small bump at the inner corner, which could be something trapped in the eye, like a foreign particle or a keratin ‘plug’. A good vet experienced with chameleons is probably a good idea.
