Snake Eyecap Removal

[wildlifewarrior]

Rubbing or using cotton wool on the eye lens can damage them and cause scratches...if its repeated it can causes blindess and/or infections, edema and panophthalmitis have also been known when clean the eye len or palpebral membrane due it being very siseptiable to infection. The best,safest and most effective way of removing them is to use some sort of carbomer liquid gel, such as viscotears from the chemist or sometimes on the ailses in asda.tescos and such. it uses a waterbased lubricating film across the palpenral membrane which causes the reptiles or snake in this case to have the skin simply fall off it.

So i will show you how i use this method.
You might need to repeat this 2-3 times, and you can encorparate other methods into this aswell to help but this is the basics and works brillantly.

Firstly get your self a snake with retained eye caps


skin caught in the eye will have the same effect



Now have your tiscotears gel ready


add a large blop over the eye(s) and place the snake in a tub for 5 minutes



After this period of time, add a blob of the gel onto a cotton wool bud....Its vital that you dont use the cotton wool bud as a tool to pull the skin off....your simple using it as a way of manipulating the gel on the bud to make contact with the gel on the eye lense



when you move the gel acround on the lense of the eye never ever do full circles...only ever do semi-circles and keep repeating this for 5 minutes.
full circles just smothers the skin back down and actually makes it hard to come off(unless your using brute force which is of course dangerous)


dont expect the eye cap to full off there and then.
but 3 hours later after placing the snake back in its enclosure


5 hours later and the photo speaks for its self


hope this helps

[dannyy_91]

allrite,

My brazilian rainbow boas eyes are really dull, dry and hard looking/feeling.
when shes not sheding they're kind of opaque, but when getting ready to shed they go more of a brownish colour. She had scale rot and was in a rapid shed cycle just there and was on paper for the obvious reasons, but is back on bark now.its been like this for the last 2 sheds and eye caps definatley came off but its like this underneath... the eyecaps that came off recently are harder and seem thicker and are the brown colour, maybe more than one layer coming off? And would the viscotears liquid work on this?

Sorry cant get pics up =\
anychance you could help based on what i've said?