Scuffed eyecaps?

[dr del]

Hi,

I recently noticed that cora had outgrown her old hides so I thought I would try the unglazed terracotta flowerpot drip trays.

My reasoning was the fact they can be soaked in water to make excellent humid hides and were heavy enough she couldn't throw them all over the place the way she did with the plastic ones.

The problem is she seems to have scuffed her eyecaps on both sides and I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this and found a cure?

She is due to shed anyday and I plan to monitor her to see if the problem comes back but I suspect it will.

It's very hard to describe and even harder to get pictures of but the front top quadrant of both eyes looks foggy and the rest looks perfectly normal.

This is the best pic I could get and also has the edge of one of the hides.



any advice?


dr del

[Freakie_frog]

could be that since she is due to shed the outer(older) skin is just roughed up from her rubbing around.

I've seen a pretty sever eye injury before and it healed just fine. Just keep an eye one it and watch for any changes

[RobbinRN]

A couple of months ago when Alice was beginning to outgrow his baby hide, which is stone, it always looked like he was cramming himself into it, especially after a meal. One night it appeared one of his eyecaps looked similar to the one in your pic. I posted here and was informed by everyone who replied that it sounded like retained eyecaps. However, he had not looked like that following his most recent shed, which had been a couple of weeks previously. Within a day or so, it was completely gone. I thought the same thing you are thinking...that he scratched his eye or made a temporary indention on it by pressing up against the top of that hide. Unless someone else here has a better explanation, I wouldn't worry about it too much just yet.

Robbin