Mites in baby ball pythons eye..

[Bogertophis]

As a person who has a blind rescue ball python whose eye caps were pulled off along with portions of her actual eye by a vet that didn’t know what they were doing, be very careful when removing the excess eye caps.

I quite agree, & I also don't recommend using tweezers near their eyes either (as mentioned in the previous post), because animals can move suddenly & without warning, & you might poke their eyes with them. Even if 99% of the time you manage to use tweezers safely for this, it's not recommended because it's not worth the risks. Safety first, please.

Kethith, I've heard (on forums like this) about similar incidents where a snake's eyes were damaged, either by owners or even vets being too aggressive about removing stuck eye caps. On the flip side, I've seen (in rescues given to me) BPs with an unknown number of stuck eye-caps layered on, opaque, dented & wrinkled, effectively blinding the snake. It's something BPs are prone to, because of their large eyes plus humidity requirements that are often inadequate (or sometimes because other health issues are causing their dehydration too).

Usually the best method is re-hydration (misting/& soaking snake in damp towel) & then after a while, some gentle & slight rubbing with the towel should loosen most eye-caps.

Once you've made a good try with the "soak" method above, if they're still stuck, another method I've used successfully in the past, which some disagree with (I'm not sure why?), is to use a small piece of "scotch" tape- the eye-caps must be completely dry, or it won't stick, & DO NOT USE ANY OTHER KIND OF TAPE- modern day scotch tape barely sticks & can even be removed from paper. (I'm old enough to remember when scotch tape was much more adhesive & far less accommodating.) Anyway, if their eyes are dry, the eye-caps will just barely stick to the tape, and should come right off on the tape- the previous hydration should facilitate this. You only touch one eye lightly at a time with the tape- gently! don't push on the eye. This is a whole lot safer IMO than trying to grab the edge of an eye-cap with tweezers- those tweezers can cause a tiny scratch or puncture in or near the eye, causing a serious infection, even the loss of the eye.

If all this fails, see an experienced (!) herp vet.