Indented eye (pic)??

The bath is working I think!! She's only been in there for about two minutes but I was watching her, and it looked like her eye re-inflated or something, like when you take a crunched up water bottle and blow into it! I'll leave her in there longer but it is kind of weird that maybe she was dehydrated a little, with that humidity? Maybe she's not drinking from her bowl? I can start giving her weekly or biweekly soaks if it helps, but it seems to be working!

Edit: The dent is almost completely gone!!! :D I guess I shouldn't be too excited lol, but I guess I'm just happy it was an easy fix and not something serious!

I have seen eye dents on my bps and they have all been taken care of by a light soak.

Oh ok, thanks!

And maybe it was a trick of the light actually, it's not completely gone yet but getting there, I guess I just got overexcited :rolleyes:

I have had this happen to a few of mine, and as I said my cages stay at 60% humidity all of the time. so either they are knocking their eyes in... or they can still get dehydrated in high humidity environments. Not sure which but it is easily fixed so I haven't put much more thought into it.

She will drink when she needs to. Keep in mind that regular soaking can interfere with their sheds. If you can maintain humidity in the tub, that should be enough.

Thanks :) It would be ok though to just soak her if this happens again?

Now it really is almost completely gone haha. Glad it wasn't serious :)

Soaking isn't great, but when necessary it isn't the worst thing. The issue comes when people think of it as a preventative measure.

There are only a few time that I would recommend soaking a BP and all of them are after something happens.

This happens to be one of them.

Oh, ok, that makes sense. I never actually thought of that before.

Edit: I guess I just always thought of it as a "common practice" in the snake world. I never really thought of it having adverse effects. I learn something new every day :D

Keep in mind that what feels warm to us is actually way way hotter than it should be for a ball. We are 96.-98.F. Anything that feels warm to us is probably over 100..F Not good for a snake. The correct temp is 86-88.F and would feel amost cold to us..... something to keep in mind so that theres no accidental shock when giving soaks.

I would have guessed humidity too, and it does look like a stuck eye cap. I'm not sure what did that. Was there anything in the tank/tub that could have fallen on the snake?