Veiled eye problems

TheDankestMeme

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CHAMELEON-Female veiled, 5 or 6 months old, I have had her for about 4, and I got her at petco.
HANDLING-only whenever things happen to her such as this.
FEEDING-3 crickets and super worms every 1 or 2 days (she doesn't always eat them all from the bucket), once a week I dust them with calcium
WATERING-I use a spray bottle and mist her and the plants for about 1-2 minutes
FECES-Haven't seen any lately. Last one was normal
HISTORY-Honestly nothing
CAGE INFO
SIZE-12x12x28
TYPE-Screen mesh
LIGHTING-Coiled 10w uvb bulb and a 25w infrared bulb when cold. Lights on at whenever I wake up, off around 12-2 a.m.
TEMPERATURES- Ranges from 69-79°
HUMIDITY-When I mist the highest I've seen is 60% and when I'm not it drops to like 10%
PLANTS-Fake and I have branches from outside I cut the bark off of and boiled.
PLACEMENT- In the corner of my room next to my window and about 1ft from
vent ( getting a table to put on soon, cage is on ground for now)
LOCATION-Southern Louisiana
PROBLEM- For the past day and a half, both her eyes are shut tightly and have like rings around them, when I spray her directly she sone times opens her right one only for a few seconds, then closes it. She hasn't eaten since this started sadly.
 
She really should have been eating a little more and dusted every feeding at that age. Not sure about the compact uvb bulbs but I know in the past they were causing some problems. A live plant would help with humidity

Do you notice her drink ? Honestly I think you definitely should go to the vet and have her checked.
 
I'm no veiled expert but here's my 2 cents:

10% humidity kinda worries me... you may want to use a glass terrarium or shield of 3 of the sides of the terrarium with shower curtain and use lots of life plants.
A humidifier would also help a lot.

79F as basking is also quite low for a veiled, this should be ambient I think.

The placement, could it be that it's in a draft area? You don't want a draft running trough her enclosure.

First get her to a vet!
 
Not to be harsh but you need to move your butt because there is not enough food, vitamins (you need some vitamin A) or living space. Wrong calcium amount and is it with d or without? Humidity is wrong. You are lucky she has lived this long and get her to a vet yesterday.She needs liquid calcium drops, a new cage, vitamins, calcium powder without d for every day/every thing and w d once a week til you get her on track and then one day every other week. Get a milk jug, make a hole, let it drip. She needs water. Toss the fake stuff, buy a large pathos plant. Hurry.
 
First read the caresheets here on the forum, unfortunate Petco set you up for failure and probably told you a bunch of misinformation. At this point with your experience level a vet trip is likely only way to get things moving in the right direction. Hydration is the immediate need, a few hand mistings a day is often not enough. Some of my chameleons won't even start drinking until the mister has run 2 or 3 minutes, then they need additional time to clean eyes. If you can get her to a vet and stabilized then correcting your enclosure set up and feeder nutrition are next on the list to fix.
 
Not to be harsh but you need to move your butt because there is not enough food, vitamins (you need some vitamin A) or living space. Wrong calcium amount and is it with d or without? Humidity is wrong. You are lucky she has lived this long and get her to a vet yesterday.She needs liquid calcium drops, a new cage, vitamins, calcium powder without d for every day/every thing and w d once a week til you get her on track and then one day every other week. Get a milk jug, make a hole, let it drip. She needs water. Toss the fake stuff, buy a large pathos plant. Hurry.
She most of the time doesn't eat all of them
 
She most of the time doesn't eat all of them
That's probably because alot of other things are not good for her as well... She needs a higher basking temp and higher humidity, you need to stop feeding so many superworms as they are not very nutritious and can cause impactation... But most of all, she needs to see a vet.

Make a vet's appointment and read this as a start : https://www.chameleonforums.com/care/caresheets/veiled/

Good luck and hope she'll pull trough!
 
Okay well without being able too see her I would say the most important thing is what @guanagator said and get her hydrated, especially because you said her eyes have rings around them I'm assuming they are sunk in. You might need to give her a shower. Second most important thing is to find her a good reptile vet I have a feeling she needs one ASAP. After she has recovered you will need to make some changes. She will need a bigger enclosure, a regular heat bulb nix the red bulb it is useless. You will need to get calcium with d3 and give it to her twice every month, a multivitamin to be given twice a month, and calcium without d3 to be given at most feedings. You need to learn how to gut load your feeders. The care sheets on here are invaluable. She is reaching the age where she is going to be laying eggs she will do this weather she has been with a male or not, so you need to set her up a laying ben. Get some live plant's in there to help bring up that humidity. First thing you need to do though is get her stabilized. Good luck.
 
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