Ashley Wilcox
New Member
- Messages
- 99
- Location
- North Carolina
About your leo:
- Sex- a couple weeks?
- Age & Weight- not sure
- How long have you owned your leo- 13 days
- Where was he/she obtained (ex. Pet store, breeder, wild caught, friend)- famous pet store chain
A) Health/History
- How often do you handle your leo- once a day for now just to do a quick check up
- Is your leo acting any different today? If so how does he/she normally act which differs from now. screaming at me, acts like cant see
- Has he/she had any problems in the past, if so please describe.
B) Fecals- normal
- Describe (look any different than normal)
- When was the last time he/she went- last night
C) Problem
- Please briefly describe the problem and how long it has been going on- today, just noticed it, its eyes were fine yesterday. both eyes were glazed over then one became normal, still acts like it cant see good
Housing:
A) Enclosure-
- Size- 10 gallon
- Type (ex. glass tank)- glass tank
- Type of substrate- paper towels
- Hides, how many, what kind- 3 hides, 1 on cool side, 1 on hot side, 1 in the middle with damp sphagnum moss
B) Heating
- Heat source- heat lamp, under the tank heat mat
- Cage temps (hot side, cool side)- hot side about 90 cool side about 80
- Method of regulating heat source
- What are you using to measure your temps- digital thermometer
- Do you have any lights (describe)- heat light, not sure on the wattage
C) Cage mates
- How many (males, females)- none
- Describe health, or previous problems
Describe Diet:
A) Typical diet
- What you're feeding (how often, how much)- crickets and mealies
- How are you feeding (hand fed, left in dish, ect)- mealies left in dish crickets dropped in tank near it
B) Supplements (describe how often)
- What vitamin/minerals are you using (list brands)- Repashy Calcium plus
- What are you gut loading food with- Flukes Cricket quincher and Flukes Orange cubes complete cricket diet
When I first got the little guy he was with about 7 other older babies in the pet shop. You could see that he had been picked on but nothing was wrong with his eyes..just a few bite marks on his back. I bought him to get him away from the older ones and put him in his tank by himself. His eyes had seemed fine, eating great, hunting everything until I went to feed him tonight. He acted like he couldnt see. So I got him out and both of his eyes were glazed over, he looks blind...Looked kinda like cataracts but it filled his entire eye. I put him back in his tank and researched online to try to find something. I saw where you can do a "blind" test by taking him in a dark room to let his eyes dialate and shine a flash light towards his eye (but not directly in them) and see if the pupils shrunk back down. So I went to get him out and one of his eyes has went back to normal? how weird is that? so I took him the bathroom and I did the blind test and his pupil dialated and shrunk back down like it was supposed to but his other eye is still glazed over? Has anyone every heard of something like this? I am going to leave him alone for tonight cause I dont want to stress him out. and I will check on his eye again tomorrow. He seems to be going into his hides ok, but still acts like he cant see at all out of that one eye. The Pet shop is a chain that has a vet on hand so I might take him back to get it a look at by them cause they will do it for free with in the 2 weeks...I was just wondering if anyone has heard of anything like this?
- Sex- a couple weeks?
- Age & Weight- not sure
- How long have you owned your leo- 13 days
- Where was he/she obtained (ex. Pet store, breeder, wild caught, friend)- famous pet store chain
A) Health/History
- How often do you handle your leo- once a day for now just to do a quick check up
- Is your leo acting any different today? If so how does he/she normally act which differs from now. screaming at me, acts like cant see
- Has he/she had any problems in the past, if so please describe.
B) Fecals- normal
- Describe (look any different than normal)
- When was the last time he/she went- last night
C) Problem
- Please briefly describe the problem and how long it has been going on- today, just noticed it, its eyes were fine yesterday. both eyes were glazed over then one became normal, still acts like it cant see good
Housing:
A) Enclosure-
- Size- 10 gallon
- Type (ex. glass tank)- glass tank
- Type of substrate- paper towels
- Hides, how many, what kind- 3 hides, 1 on cool side, 1 on hot side, 1 in the middle with damp sphagnum moss
B) Heating
- Heat source- heat lamp, under the tank heat mat
- Cage temps (hot side, cool side)- hot side about 90 cool side about 80
- Method of regulating heat source
- What are you using to measure your temps- digital thermometer
- Do you have any lights (describe)- heat light, not sure on the wattage
C) Cage mates
- How many (males, females)- none
- Describe health, or previous problems
Describe Diet:
A) Typical diet
- What you're feeding (how often, how much)- crickets and mealies
- How are you feeding (hand fed, left in dish, ect)- mealies left in dish crickets dropped in tank near it
B) Supplements (describe how often)
- What vitamin/minerals are you using (list brands)- Repashy Calcium plus
- What are you gut loading food with- Flukes Cricket quincher and Flukes Orange cubes complete cricket diet
When I first got the little guy he was with about 7 other older babies in the pet shop. You could see that he had been picked on but nothing was wrong with his eyes..just a few bite marks on his back. I bought him to get him away from the older ones and put him in his tank by himself. His eyes had seemed fine, eating great, hunting everything until I went to feed him tonight. He acted like he couldnt see. So I got him out and both of his eyes were glazed over, he looks blind...Looked kinda like cataracts but it filled his entire eye. I put him back in his tank and researched online to try to find something. I saw where you can do a "blind" test by taking him in a dark room to let his eyes dialate and shine a flash light towards his eye (but not directly in them) and see if the pupils shrunk back down. So I went to get him out and one of his eyes has went back to normal? how weird is that? so I took him the bathroom and I did the blind test and his pupil dialated and shrunk back down like it was supposed to but his other eye is still glazed over? Has anyone every heard of something like this? I am going to leave him alone for tonight cause I dont want to stress him out. and I will check on his eye again tomorrow. He seems to be going into his hides ok, but still acts like he cant see at all out of that one eye. The Pet shop is a chain that has a vet on hand so I might take him back to get it a look at by them cause they will do it for free with in the 2 weeks...I was just wondering if anyone has heard of anything like this?
