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Hello all,
I have a female BP that is about 900 g. and is doing great.. She shed about 5 days ago; perfect all in one piece and ate a sm. rat a day later.

Last night I took a look at her and one of her eyes has a dent in it.. She does not look dehydrated nor does she look unhappy.

Any one have an idea to why this is happening?

Thanks again,
A

bump the humidity up and it will go back to normal.
this happens when the humidity is too low, usually nothing to worry about.
TomChambers

Thanks Tom..

I love the full photo of him/her on the spray bottle.
nice snake
TomChambers

Pastel Male

Sorry

n/p

That's been my experience. Tom's suggestion may be adequate, and if it works, great! But I'd hate to see you keep increasing the humidity trying to fix the eye until the snake gets "scale rot" or some other complication from humidity being too high. I once kept a BP in an elaborately decorated vivarium with high sides. He would try to climb the sides, slide down sideways, and end up denting his eye on a cage decoration. The snake seemed oblivious to it and was able to strike accurately. It always would fix itslef with the next shed. I now have 16 BP's, most of them in rack set-ups including the "eye-denter" who no longer has this problem. Good luck.
Paul

I’ve never seen a dent due to blunt force trauma, was there any other problems with the eye after that.

Just curious because I have a snake recovering from some type of infection in her eye, and my vet asked repeatedly if there was any trauma to the eye.

When I used aquarium type tanks (before modifying them) I used to have periods of low humidity and eye denting occurred occasionally. Bumping up the humidity restored the eye in a few hours or so.

Good point though, I was quite vague, in excess the techniques people employ to raise humidity could lead to other ailments as you pointed out.

I have long since moved to racks for the ease of husbandry and by necessity for space.

TomChambers

The individual BP was always kind of "bug-eyed", since he was a hatchling. He probably dented an eye on 6 or more occasions. When I moved him into a rubbermaid, I put a larger female in the vivarium, and she has never dented an eye. She even produced a 6-egg clutch in that same vivarium in our living room giving me 6 big babies last year . The "eye-denter" is doing perfecly fine, now 2 years since I moved him to the rubbermaid where he can't do that anymore. I don't plan to breed him because I don't want any offspring with that tendancy. I occasionally use him to stir things up when another male isn't breeding well for me.
Paul