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hello, I was wondering if there is anything special for care of a one eyed snake? is this genetic or? I tried looking it up online.. however i just got all porn sites. Not what i was looking for. I would think as long as you don't get anything in the socket and they can see with the other eye they would be fine??? Thanks

no theres no special care needed just keep them like you would any 2 eyed snake! im guessing however its a albino? albinos are known for this condition due to all the inbreeding done to produce more albinos faster.

Hello,

Care is no different than any other snake. The eye socket should be healed over and basically appear as if there is just scales over where the eye would be. Does yours have an actual pocket/socket where stuff could get trapped in there? If so, then I would recommend keeping the snake on newspaper or corrugated to ensure nothing gets in the socket cavity. (of course, I recommend those substrates regardless.)

One-eye is generally a genetic flaw and is inheritable, although a snake can also lose it's eye from trama and infection. I personally believe it is un-ethical to breed a one-eyed snake.

Pictured here is our one-eyed (pet only!) sunglow boa. She is thriving and doing well, acts just like all the other boas. She does tend to tilt her head up on the side with the eye. When she sleeps in her hide, she keeps the no-eye side facing out (she thinks what she can't see, can't see her). I always offer her food coming in from the side with the eye so she sees it.

Good luck!
-April

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Beautiful snake!

In the early 90's I used to breed Indian Pythons. My breeder female was born without an eye. I bred her to an unrelated male and produced beautiful 2 eyed babies for several years. Im not sure if genetics or temperature caused her to have the missing eye, but her babies appeared to be perfectly normal. I do understand your point , but Im not so sure that its unethical if the babies appear normal. Just my opinion. Ill bet there are some pretty nice breeder boas out there with one eye, or something else a little bit out of kilter, that are being bred by breeders and are producing "normal looking babies". Thanks

I agree with April about not breeding boas that were born with one eye, or lost one/both shortly after birth. Not enough is known in general about what causes some babies to be born with missing eyes, and without knowing how it might be passed on to offspring (it might not appear in the first breeding, but what about when you breed those babies?) we don't do it.
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I dont disagree totally with you, but I have seen some of the offspring from the indian pythons with no reported eye issues. I think it is case by case and should be disclose to potential buyers. That was 16 yrs ago, but I think its open to opinions. Thanks

Years ago I had a male who lost an eye due to a rat bite (previous owner situation). He was just like any of the other snakes, except 1 big thing, I had to be careful if he was laying with the blind side toward the front of the enclosure and I wanted to get him out. He was quite a bit more jumpy and would nail the snot out of me (and then eventually the hook when I got tired of being tagged).
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so, since posting this morning i have found some sites on inheritable traits, with eye problems mentioned. You all said it is a thing to be passed on.which i agree. Why is it found in albinos more?

I don't believe its as passable (passed on genetically) of a trait as many people believe it is.
I think it is a more common problem among some Albino Boas but not
necessarily passed on genetically the way people might think

There was a breeding of a no eyed Albino to a 1 eyed Albino that
produced 23 babies here is the story

Albino Eye Dubay Albino

Posted by: boaphile at Thu Dec 18 10:18:38 2008 [ Report Abuse ] [ Email Message ]

>>>All that being said, in about 2003 Joel DuBay bred a female Albino that was born with both eyes bad, to an Albino male with one bad eye. That's right. Just one eye between them. She produced a litter of 23 babies with only two bad eyes in the lot. This is the exact same result that may very well occur using two perfect Albinos. I think that proves that the bad eye thing in Albinos, though something that does occur, and is certainly genetic due to it's relationship to the Albino lines, is not a genetic characteristic that works like Albinism or any desirable "mutation" that we are familiar with. In other words, an Albino with a bad eye seems to be no more likely to produce an Albino with a bad eye than an Albino with two good eyes

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That is HILARIOUS that your search turned up porn sites!!!!!
"One eyed snake"!!!!!!!!