Won't Open Eyes

Tolstoy

Tolstoy

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I have a 11 month old panther chameleon who has had his eyes closed during the day. I know this is not a good sign so I am starting to get very worried. I noticed it starting about a week ago and have made an appointment with the vet for this tuesday if he does not improve. Yesterday I removed the live ficus tree and replaced it with a fake one to make sure the sap was not the issue. Do anyone know what it could be? Any advice would be very appreciated.
Here is some general information:

Cage 4 ft x 2ft x 2ft
Lighting: Zilla Tropical 25 and heatbulb 50 watt (switched yesterday from a 75)
Humidity: Roughly 20% (misting 2 to 3 times a day)sometimes spray humidifying spray by zilla
Diet: Superworms, Hornedworms, Crickets
Vitamins: Reptivite with D3 (powder), Fulkers liquid calcium
Cage Temps: 85-87 non-basking and 91-108 basking

Thanks
 
Here is a little more info. Thanks

Chameleon - Blue bar panther, male, 11 months olds
Handling - Handle 3-4x a week
Feeding - Currently feeding 6 superworms a day, some giant horned worms, sometime crickets with store bought gutload
Supplements - Dusting worms with reptivite w/d3 and using fulker liquid calicum
Watering - Misting 3 times a day for about a minute. Drinks out of a small bowl when I hold it for him. recently bought a mistking system but have not had the time to set it up
Fecal Description - Feces has been normal until today. The urate looked a bit orange and the fecal matter was greenish

Cage Info:
Cage Type - ZooMed
Lighting - Zilla 25 tropical UV and a 50 watt basking bulb both go on at 7:20 am and off at 8pm. The basking has been off as it has been hot. I do not use the air conditioner during the day,as it removes the humidity
Temperature - basking 85-95, room 77 to 90 (depending on day) at night 70-77 without air conditioner, 67-74 with air conditioner
Humidity - Id guess about 20% but I am working to get it up
Plants - switched yesterday from a live ficus to a fake ficus, vines, branches
Placement -Cage is in a corner of a second floor room which receives sunlight in the afternoon
Location - New York
 
You're supposed to use without d3 everyday, with d3 twice a month and twice a month multivitamins. You went from 108 to 85 basking temp, which is it?
 
The temp in the room greatly fluctuates due to the summer. Yesterday I can in to check the temp saw it was in the hundred and turned it off. Currently it is 86 in the room no basking spot
 
I bought a new light so I don't think that was the problem. He has not shed for over 2 months and I just noticed this morning that the skin around the eye is beginning to come off (but not throughout his body). Is it normal to shed very slowly?
 
I would put a shower curtain or garbage bag draping down 3 sides of the cage to help get your humidity higher and some real plants, maybe more mistings. A humidifier for the room would help.
 
suzi said:
I would put a shower curtain or garbage bag draping down 3 sides of the cage to help get your humidity higher and some real plants, maybe more mistings. A humidifier for the room would help.
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Agreed, this will help A LOT keep humidity up, plus use real plants :) Keep us updated. Try keeping him in a shower, let it bounce off the walls onto a fake plant on the shower floor
 
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