Eye related question/opinion

[jxl]

I've noticed something with eye of my ball python and I don't have a clue what it might be. As far I know it's not shedding. Last shed I've found eye caps, and as I remember ever other time too. It's about 24 hours since I've noticed it thinking stupid snake was a bit rough roaming around his place.

Any suggestions ideas or even better explanation would be welcome.






I might also add that his behavior normal and as usual. He's one nosy snake

[jxl]

Took it to vet and they removed the stuck eye cap, bathing and q-tip didn't work so he went on a road trip. Vet removed the stuck eye cap, found a bit of scratching beneath the eye cap, probably snake did it to him self while trying to remove the eye cap.

[piedlover79]

I was about to say that it looks like an eyecap to me. I'm glad you got him to a vet and that they knew what to do. Not sure how he ended up with a stuck cap if you took note of the cap from the last shed thought, that's odd. the top photo looks like there is shed stuck to his neck too. What's your humidity like?

[dwilliams]

To prevent this from happening again try to keep your humidity around 60-70%. What kind of enclosure do you have? Maybe we can give you som tips on how to get it to hold humidity better.

[jxl]

I was about to say that it looks like an eyecap to me. I'm glad you got him to a vet and that they knew what to do. Not sure how he ended up with a stuck cap if you took note of the cap from the last shed thought, that's odd. the top photo looks like there is shed stuck to his neck too. What's your humidity like?

It's weird but it's true. He has shedded them. This time he was lazy or something he was hardly interesting enough to start with his head and finish before he got to his neck. Waited around 24 hours then helped him shed. I always keep previous sheds for occasions like this so I can recheck.

Here's a photo of a helmet from last shed which he removed (also mouth and heat pits) by himself everything else needed to be helped with. One before this is so destroyed that no caps were found. Beside that his previous 5 sheds were complete ...



As anyone can see eye caps are on helmet shed.

Removed the neck stuck shed yesterday while bathing him and trying to rub off the eye cap. Without success so that's why he went to see vet.

His regular temps are around 50% +/- few ofcoz. And they get bumped to +70% when in shed.

To prevent this from happening again try to keep your humidity around 60-70%. What kind of enclosure do you have? Maybe we can give you som tips on how to get it to hold humidity better.

His regular temps are around 50% +/- few ofcoz. And they get bumped to +70% when in shed. He is in a glass viv. Like all the others. I keep general humidity high and I spray the snake in shed daily.

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However it's not a first snake and it's been few years and it never happened before, but as far I understand that happens from time to time to snakes with bulgy eyes. It just didn't look like stuck shed. But he tried to remove it and he scratched his eye a bit. Vet gave me some eye drops that I need to administer once a week till his next shed.

Thanks god it's not O. Hannah which I helped with bad shed and she even had both eye caps stuck. Sadly I was not paying enough attention to the procedure while master removed the eye caps. I was somewhat more worried about my safety while holding the body

Hope this helps to anyone trying to recognize stuck eye caps.

[jxl]

P.S. can't edit no more, but I've meant humidity levels not temp levels. Temps are around 28C/83F now in winter and they get bumped to 30-32C/88-90F in summer. The colder part is about 25C/78F.