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Sorry if this is a topic that has been covered before -- I haven't read through all the archives yet, but I was wondering if any of you sages out there know anything about blindness in Leos. I've got 2 juvies, about 2 months old, both in the same cage -- fed the same, treated the same. One is doing just fine, but the other over about the past 3 weeks has started opening his/her eyes less and less -- started out just opening a crack every once in a while, but got more infrequent until now he doesn't open his eyes at all. It's not from dead skin from shedding because I've been careful to (gently!) swab his eyes to make sure there's nothing covering them. This is the only symptom of anything wrong that I've noticed -- he hasn't started getting overly thin or lose his tail or anything. Do leos go blind (especially this young), or do you think the eyes closing is a symptom of a different problem?

Thanks for your time!

If you think your leopard gecko is going blind...now would be a good time to take them to the vet. I have a blind leo, but she was born that way and she can easily be hand-fed.
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