Super dilated eyes? Possibly blind?

I recently got a queen bee and her eyes are superrrr dilated. I believe she is blind because of it. She has trouble getting into her hides and she seems to lock onto heat really easily.

Her pupils are circles and take up most of her eye. She looks like she's on drugs.

Is this a medical problem? Does anyone know why and if she is actually blind?

Are you sure you aren't just seeing symptoms from spider wobble?

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Originally Posted by HannahLou

Are you sure you aren't just seeing symptoms from spider wobble?

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Positive. The Queenbee has very minimal wobble. The firebees is way worse. Are the dilated eyes a symptom?

I guess to test that, you could see if she reacts to something waved in around her head, obviously something that is room temperature though. What you're describing does sound like it could have to do with being blind or at least impaired.

Or her pupils are simply dilated because she is on alert for something. Your snake is a python. They use their heat pits and scent to track things more then their eyes.. Ball pythons dont have great vision to begin with

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Originally Posted by M.P.C

Or her pupils are simply dilated because she is on alert for something. Your snake is a python. They use their heat pits and scent to track things more then their eyes.. Ball pythons dont have great vision to begin with

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They've been dilated everytime i've seen her for the past week or two.

Sorry for asking a stupid question, but... is it dark/dim lighting when you take her out? Have you tried holding a light up to see how she and her pupils react? If you take her out in the evening and the room doesn't have really bright lights, it would make perfect sense for her pupils to be dilated; yours are probably dilated too.

Another thought is, if she's relatively new to you and was just starting to head into a shed cycle when you got her, you might not have seen enough of her non-shedding colors to easily tell the difference if she's a little faded. And if she's headed towards blue, not as much light is getting through her spectacles so her pupils would open wider; and she also wouldn't be able to see as well as normal.

That still dosnt mean they arent dilated because she is on alert, back when i had bowser his eyes were almost always like that, his cage was perfectly set up, all my numbers were on point, he was just shy and always on alert... They are wild animals and some of them do remain scared of everything much into adulthood.

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Originally Posted by Coluber42

Sorry for asking a stupid question, but... is it dark/dim lighting when you take her out? Have you tried holding a light up to see how she and her pupils react? If you take her out in the evening and the room doesn't have really bright lights, it would make perfect sense for her pupils to be dilated; yours are probably dilated too.

Another thought is, if she's relatively new to you and was just starting to head into a shed cycle when you got her, you might not have seen enough of her non-shedding colors to easily tell the difference if she's a little faded. And if she's headed towards blue, not as much light is getting through her spectacles so her pupils would open wider; and she also wouldn't be able to see as well as normal.

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It can be dim, but my other 2 balls aren't like that. I will try bringing her into sunlight and seeing how she reacts. When I got her, she just finished up with her shed.

We determined my old boa had indeed gone blind by shining a flashlight in her eyes to check for reaction (in addition to moving things by her face). Her eyes aren't super dilated though, they are normal, there is just no reaction to light changes at all. So besides sunlight, you may want to try something direct like shining a light.