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My three month old female veiled chameleon just recently (about 4 days ago) started keeping one eye open at night. She seems very healthy other than this. It may have started after she shed. Any ideas???

Same thing just started to happend to my Female thats why i bought a fogger has not helped yet can any ojne tell me what this is started one eye now its both but when they are open at night i will wave my hand near them she does not wake up so she still sleepying but eyes lids dont close

Hmmmmm. Birds are known to literally sleep with one eye open and have one hemisphere of their brain awake while the other hemisphere sleeps. The side that's open is typically the side exposed to potential predators. I've never heard of that in chams I wouldn't bet that's the situation here. Just a thought.
Ed

Mine cham looks like there is a clear glaze over her eye

A glaze over the ye is another matter. You need to have a vet look at him. And as for the "fogger" you mentioned: I'm not sure what kind you mean but it's NOT good to have cham directly in the fog. I used to do that. Now I keep an ultrasonic humidifier going but it's just a room humidifier It's not pointed directly at the cages. Those things are fine for amphibians but not for reptiles.

If you don't believe me that direct fogging is bad, put your face right in front of an ultrasonic humidifier and breathe in the mist. Then imagine doing that for many hours/day, It's really quite hard on the lungs. High humidity is good but direct fogging is bad. And the humidifier must be cleaned regularly to prevent bacterial infections. Ed