puffy closed eye!help!

[kenny21]

my beardie is about 4 months old,i noticed her right eye was completly shut and looks swollen and watery.what could it be??

 

[Spikey92]

What kind of uvb light do you have?
Is your beardie on sand or other loose substrate?
Is your beardie housed alone?

 

[kenny21]

exo terra 10.0
reptile carpet
no,we have one other beardie that is very close to the same age and size

 

[Spikey92]

The only recommended uvb lights are the repti sun 10 tube or arcadia 12%. everything else can and will cause eye issues.
Please seperate your dragons ASAP!youre not supposed to house more than one beardie in a tank.It can end fatal! Its is possible that the other Beardie scratched the sicks beardie eye and its now infected. Can you post a pic of the eye?

 

[kenny21]

i see beardie's housed together all of the time..i never knew it was bad.and you wont be able to see it on the pic,she can actually open it for a while now but it just looks really glassy

 

[cvontres]

I agree with Spikey. Definitely switch to Reptisun 10.0 or Arcadia 12 %. Please do it for your Beardie. I cannot say how important it is. -M

 

[kenny21]

alright will do..but whats weird is ,my other beardie is perfectly fine

 

[PrettyInInk]

alright will do..but whats weird is ,my other beardie is perfectly fine

The lights can affect them all differently. My Charlie lived under coils fot a while and was perfectly fine....until she was about six months old. Then the eye issues began. The ReptiSun made a huge difference.

 

[kenny21]

okay and i just noticed he is rubbing his eye on things in the tank!!

 

[Esther19]

Is his eye crusty or oozing at all? You can use sterile saline solution to wash the eye. You can also put raw unpasteurized honey on it, thinned with just a bit of warm water. But it can't be the honey from the grocery store. It needs to be raw and unpasteurized. People are very enthusiastic about the honey's healing properties.

 

[Esther19]

Here is a link to an article about beardies housed together.
http://www.beardeddragon.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=154908