White ring around eye?

Hi, I'm a total beginner so don't have any experience to draw from but I read an article in Retiles USA recently where a snake had a white area around the eye which was caused by mites. I'll be interested to find out what you hear from a vet.

~Steve

Yeah, my snake had mites and it has that white ring.

I am waiting for it to shed and see if it comes off.

Yeah. The herp specialist actually wasn't available this week, so I guess Shelby is just gonna stay put for now, wait it out a bit longer. Thanks for all of the input.

Are you positive it's not mites?

I honestly hadn't considered mites until I read the responses from stevelvd and Venom. How would I be able to tell if she does have them? I don't know anything about them.

They tend to gather around the eyes. Is she trying to get into her water bowl at all?

No. She's acting completely normal and doesn't seem bothered at all - only, of course, when I try getting at the thing myself.

My male pastel had something like that about 2 months ago. ALmost looked like the membrane/eyelid shark close when attacking prey. Does his eye look like its slightly sunken in? Thats what mine looked like but then he went into shed about a week or 2 after ans once he shed it was gone. Also it could be a stuck shed I have one of my females that had a bad shed last week and had peices of skin all over and i noticed that the majority of her eyecap had come off but not a small ring around the outer edge of the eye but after a quick soak it came right out.

Not sunken in, no. Everything seems completely normal except for that white piece of skin/membrane material around the top edge of her left eye.