Retained eye cap?

Sylphie · 08-12-16, 01:23 PM

I decided today to try find what it can be... I bought Callisto year ago as 8yo lady and she always had that "weird" eyes. At first I thought that it was retained eyecaps, tried to take them off, but nothing happened. She's shedding fine and her vision seems to be perfect too. It doesn't bother me (or her) too much, I'm just curious what that "cloudy" look can be? It looks like she's always one the beggining of being in shed. If needed I can of course take her to the vet. And I can try to take better pics tomorrow too. I always just assumed that that's her look, but I started to wonder if maybe it's something bad.

Albert Clark · 08-12-16, 04:32 PM

Hey Sylph! I think if her vision seems ok and she is shedding well too I would get a penlight and check her pupils and see if they both react equally to the light. The pupils should get smaller when the light is shined into them and you may be able to see if there is something abnormal like a opaqueness to the spectacle or a scratch/ injury. Of course the definitive action is to go to the vet but this is something you can do prior. The cloudiness ( if that's what it really is) could be a genetic presentation.

Sylphie · 08-13-16, 04:13 AM

I checked both eyes with light and they react well. There is no opaqueness at all, it just looks cloudy like at the first day of shedding. I guess that I'll take her to the vet the next time we'll need to go there just to be sure it's nothing bad.

But, what is interesting I noticed that it's pretty popular in this species, basing on the pics I saw of them. I'll try to ask some other owners for pics of their Russians eyes, maybe it's just the way they look in adult specimens.

Albert Clark · 08-13-16, 05:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Sylphie

I checked both eyes with light and they react well. There is no opaqueness at all, it just looks cloudy like at the first day of shedding. I guess that I'll take her to the vet the next time we'll need to go there just to be sure it's nothing bad.

But, what is interesting I noticed that it's pretty popular in this species, basing on the pics I saw of them. I'll try to ask some other owners for pics of their Russians eyes, maybe it's just the way they look in adult specimens.

When I did a real closeup and compared the right and left eyes, it seems to be present in both but much more apparent in the right eye. Also, what do the people you purchased her from say about it. Was that something you explored already? The genetic possibilities? Anyway, I am glad both pupils react to light equally and there doesn't seem to be a injury.

Sylphie · 08-13-16, 05:38 AM

To be honest it's the same in both, but I don't have a good pics of that left side. As for previous owner he didn't said anything about it, and considering that she wasn't in best state when she arrived I didn't noticed it right off the bat. Only around two weeks later and the previous owner "dissapeared" then.

As for that guess with it being a genetic, normal thing in more adult schrenckii I contacted a few breeders already. But from what I researched most of the pics that were taken on snakes older than 7 years are having exactly the same eyes, so I really am starting to think that it may be just normal for older ones. Will post here when I receive some opinions about it