Damaged Eye (most likely NOT a retained eye cap)

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I feel bad about the condition of the snake. It's a good possibility that he is blind in that eye! I mean that is probably worse case scenario , but until it's ruled out its a reasonable consideration. He really does need to go to the vet for this! Maybe everyone can contribute to a special emergency collection to get him the treatment he needs? The eye is a critical body part. Keep us posted. Good luck!

Yeah, I considered blindness as well. I agree, it's very, very possible. According to the teacher, he displayed some really odd feeding behavior in contrast to what he usually does last time the mice were offered. They offer them both to the snake at once and he normally kills one and then kills the other before eating them. Last time he killed one and then ate immediately, oblivious to the other mouse. Apparently he had some trouble catching and eating the other one and almost didn't seem to notice it. I didn't think much of this before, but I'll have to ask if his eye looked like that when he was last fed. Oh, and he's also much more active than he is right now according to everyone else. So that's a little worrying.

I tried to see if he'd move away from me if I moved my hand on the side of his face with the bad eye, and he did. However, I had to get pretty close and it wasn't a very strong reaction. Then again, when I tried on the other side of his face, he didn't seem to care much either. I didn't have to get quite as close, but he's not at all headshy and may have just been moving away because he could.

I'm going to suggest a vet visit on Monday. There's a reptile vet nearby (actually, there are several), so that's not a problem. I'll see what I can do and hope for the best.

Do you have any ideas on what could've caused this eye damage? Injury, or..? I have basically nothing to go on, so I'll listen to any ideas. I'm thinking that he may have hurt himself on the plant in his cage (wires were sticking out, I got rid of that thing), but I'm not too sure about that. I'll be looking at the cage more closely to see if there's anything else.

EDIT: Just saw the reason at the bottom of your post. What kind of eye diseases are there in snakes to watch out for?