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This skin is not your normal dried skin around the eyes. This skin has not come of in a few sheddings. I noticed that my humid hides are not all that humid. I am also keeping them on sand, but I've noticed since doing that my leos are not as healthy as they were on paper. I am swapping out the sand this week.

Anyway how do I remove the nasty eye boogers from their eyes? They are pretty crusty and look really nasty. I do not want to have half blind Leos. Right now there are 2 of my 6 showing these characteristics. Each are from different tanks. 1 male and 1 female. I really think it is my husbandry technique. I know what I'm doing wrong and need to fix it, but I want to get these guys seeing straight again.

Here's how I've been treating them as so if I need to do something different please let me know...THE MALE I placed in water to allow to soak and I peeled as much of the skin away as I could. I saw that he had a few sores around his mouth so I put some antibiotic ointment on there and also put some on the one eye that I could not remove the skin from. I have the male separated out his tank to allow for faster healing of the sores. I have been washing and reapplying the ointment. THE FEMALE I allowed to soak for awhile. Skin is on both of her eyes and I cannot get it off.I have tried to peel some of it. She does not have any sores on her mouth...just some skin on her eyes.

I had a ball python that I got from someone that had a bunch of stuck sheds on its eye and it would not come off when I took warm water and a wash rag and tried to dab it off. I put a humid chamber of moss in its tanks and one day when I held it the piece of skin shed off on my shirt. I'm hoping something similar will happen with the leos.

Please let me know anything I can do. I feel so rotten because this is all purely my fault and I know better. So now help me learn to treat this. I can fix things to prevent this from happening again. Just give me a few pointers on treatment. Thanks much...the worried leo owner.
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My Critters

6 Leopard Gecko 2.4.0
1 Tokay Gecko 1.0.0
2 Ball Pythons 2.0.0
1 Black Kingsnake 1.0.0
1 Mex Black/cali king hybrid 1.0.0
3 Baird's Rat Snake (Thanks Vadoni!) 2.1.0
***1.0 Loma Alta***1.2Hawkeye 04 stock***
2 Gray Ratsnakes 0.1.1
1 04 Amel Cornsnake 0.1
1 04 Anery Cornsnake 1.0
3 Dekay's Snake 0.1.2
1.0 Ambystoma tigrinum nebulosum
1.1 Green Tree Frogs (H. cinerea)

Critters under my care

3 Red Milk Snakes 02
2 Mexican Milk Snakes
2 Black King snakes 03
2 Mexican Black/California King Hybrids
11 California Kingsnakes
1 Eastern Kingsnake
11 Graybanded Kingsnakes
2 Baird's Rat Snake
1 Yellow Rat Snake
1 Everglades Rat Snake
25 Corn Snakes
2 African house snakes
1 Green Tree Python
2 Boa c. constrictor
1 Mottled Rock Rattlesnake

OK-
first off, yes, this is pretty much YOUR fault. I appreciate that you seem to get that, but here's what to do:
one, take the one w/ the sores to the vet.
two, um, don't put antibiotics (or really anything else) in their eyes, esp. w/o a prescription
three, fix the husbandry. take good humidity measurements and FIX it!
four, continue w/saunas and rubbing gently at the skin
five, um, these are eyelid geckoes, meaning the scale from a snake's eye shed is not present on your leo
six, give us an update
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