I have seen black around part of the pupil in some of my amels or snow and I always wondered if it was some sort of congenital cataract. I had never seen it completely circle the pupil like in your photo though! When I saw that I doubted the cataract theory very much since if it completely encirceld it I would have expected the whole pupil to look shaded or black.

It certainly does not seem to affect the health or eating of the few snakes I have seen it in.

Jo

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• amel eyeball pic - begunwithaletter, Mon Aug 28 19:31:05 2006
• RE: amel eyeball pic - phiber_optikx, Mon Aug 28 23:19:49 2006
• just an observation... np - begunwithaletter, Mon Aug 28 23:56:46 2006
• Totally normal.... - Darin Chappell, Tue Aug 29 10:57:44 2006
• RE: Totally normal.... - begunwithaletter, Tue Aug 29 14:15:18 2006
• I can count the rods and cones - HerpZillA, Tue Aug 29 15:44:11 2006
• Shrug? - DonSoderberg, Tue Aug 29 16:58:02 2006
• ??? - HerpZillA, Tue Aug 29 17:42:09 2006
• Sorry . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue Aug 29 18:36:50 2006
• ROFL - HerpZillA, Tue Aug 29 19:04:09 2006
• eyes . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue Aug 29 19:07:40 2006
• You got it. - HerpZillA, Tue Aug 29 19:56:09 2006
• Just a thought - snakefamily, Tue Aug 29 21:03:55 2006
• Circle . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue Aug 29 21:06:46 2006
• My complete and total GUESS is... - Darin Chappell, Tue Aug 29 22:16:21 2006
• Sounds right . . . - DonSoderberg, Tue Aug 29 22:22:24 2006
• Well since the guessing has started - HerpZillA, Wed Aug 30 02:41:30 2006