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Hello, I found what appears to be an eye infection on my croc skink. He only has it on one eye and the female (I'm just guessing, I know one's a male and the other is a female but I'm not sure which is which) thats in there with him has no infections. I just noticed this earlier and am not sure if this is actually an eye infection or something else. Its almost like kind of a cloudy layer on the very top part of his eye. None of my other reptiles have had any signs of this nor have I dealt with this with any reptile recently. Around a month ago someone gave me a peachthroat monitor who had already had an actual eye infection, but I don't have him anymore and havn't for around a month, he was also in a different area of my house far away from the croc skink and none of my reptiles had shown any signs of the peachtroats infections. I currently have my two croc skinks set up togather in a 20 gal long, with an area to soak and a large hide in which they stay under mostly. They're cage is also misted often. Please post with advice or solutions. I don't know how to post a picture on this website, but I can either email the picture to whomever or if someone could explain that would be great. Thank you

My advise would be to bring the skink to a qualified herp vet. Its far too difficult to even guess what is going on with the eye by description alone.

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PHLdyPayne

Thanks fo the reply. Like I said I'm really not sure if it is an actual eye infection, but it does seem to be. Here's a picture. The area that seems to be infected is in his upper eye, its the white part.

That looks like an abscess in the upper corner of the eye to me. It may not be an actual 'eye' infection but something has caused quite a bit of swelling in the upper left corner of the eye. Something could have bit your lizard and its infected, foreign material may have worked itself under the eye lid etc. In either case, you need to take him to a vet to get it properly assessed.

Without proper treatment, its likely to only get worse, maybe so bad as to push the eyeball right out of the socket, risking loss of that eye. Though some abscesses are not caused by an 'infection' they have underlying causes which could be life threatening to your lizard.

At first when you described the eye has being kind of clouding I was thinking maybe unshed eye caps...something that happens with snakes, though most lizards don't have this issue...but with the picture, its definitely nothing to do with stuck shed.
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PHLdyPayne