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Reptoman
at Thu Jul 21 09:24:03 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Reptoman ]
I agree with Eve, listen there seems to be an infection that affects collards in the eyes. I have a Dickersonea which was on sand and then changed over too carpet (astro-turf) with the thought that this was sand in the eye. Turns out it was an infection, please get him too the vet, not to be an alarmist, Some of my other collard lizard friends have also obsevrved this before. If you have extremely fine sand in your cage this might be the culprit, but I am concerned based on what I have seen with collards, aparently this eye infection does not get better, so I would take eve's advice, if after a couple cays and an attempt to dislog what we all think is a grain of sand or two, I would get him/her to the vet. Unfortunately this infection causes blindness and eventually death of untreated. I wonder if any other collard keepers out here have also obsrved this in their collards as well? There nust be some contributing factor to causing this infection, but it's not clear what that is. Also a normal healthy collard for the most part are totally capable of clearing derbis from they eye. With rareity do they have a piece of derbis they cannot rid themselves of. I noticed mine continually trying to clear his eye but upon examination I could not find any derbis, eventaully they eye was closed more often than open and by that time he already was ill. So if it's been more than three or 4 days, I'd say get him to the vet.......I hope I am not sounding like an alarmist but unless you can observe some sand or derbis in the eye I would be suspicuous that this is more than what it appears to be........Cheers, and good luck.
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RE: Anything to flush an eye out? - Reptoman, Thu Jul 21 09:24:03 2005