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My male borneo STP has had what looks to be a wrinkly eye lately. I thought that I'd read somewhere once upon a time that it was cause by low humidity? Is this true?

Thanks so much!
~Caietaro

I have never had this happen with a Blood but I did have it happen to a ball I asked around to other herpers with experiance and popular consences was that it was a retained eye cap I was able to just jack up the humidity on the enclosure for the next shed and everything looked fine and havn't had the problem again. I would try to raise the humidity for a few days see if it helps. does the rest of the snake seam to be hydrated ie silky scales
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Kevin
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"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself."-unknown

Hey,
It is very likely that your short-tail, was kept in a low humidity situation and did develop crinkly eye caps as a result. I keep a large adult female Borneo short-tail, that when first received, for the better part of 10 months, both eyes retained the crinkly appearance. However, with corrective husbandry and better housing and humidity, the condition did clear it self up, and she is now normal. It takes sometime, but it is not impossible to correct. You can either place a water bowl large enough for him/her to soak in, if the borneo is small, or you can maintain the humidity in the 60% -70% range for a short-while (idealy, the humidity should be kept no higher than 50%-60%). Avoid creating a soupy condition in the cage as the additional humidity, can create another problem. Usually soaking is all it takes.

Check to see if your short-tail is opaque, as sometimes they develop that condition just before a shed, but usually clears it self up right after the shed. Again, the condition I described in my situation, was excessive, and I don't know how the previous party kept my girl, but she is now free of the problematic eye condition.

-Angel
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"Until we lose our self, there is no way of finding our self."
-Henry Miller.

Sometimes it can be low humidity. However I do have an adult that seems to just have a cronic wrinkley eye... He's had it ever since I've had him, its getting better over time but I've had him I guess almost 3 years now. Tried boosting the humidity for awhile, but it never seems to help just seems like its very very slowly going away over time. No other health problems associated with it tho so I'm not too worried.

J
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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior