Alternative eyecap removal

[wildlifewarrior]

Ok well I have had 7 people ring me for help with removing eyecaps,31 people pm me...and many requests to do a thread on this.
So I thought what the heck.


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

[derek n]

never had to deal with retained eye-caps but if I do I'll be using this thread

[Blackecho]

Very nice.

[lycanlord20]

Excellent lil tutorial, same method I got shown and I agree with the others, this should definitely be a sticky, considering how common this problem is/

[quadrapop]

SUPER GLUE!!! oh right thats not what you meant?


seriously though usefull thread.

[wildlifewarrior]

cheers....a common problem with a simple solution

[chris25]

ww gave me this tip and its a winner...sticky needed to help the snakes!..

[wildlifewarrior]

Originally Posted by chris25

ww gave me this tip and its a winner...sticky needed to help the snakes!..

cheers mate.
i just had to wait for a snake to get a eyecap to do a thread on it

[fjfenton]

I agree, definately sticky material!!
This post is really good and adding the pics is a great idea

BTW I work in a chemist and if you say you want the viscotears for non-human use they are unlikely to sell it to you as it is not licensed! Ask for it to treat dry eyes! (Of course, professionally, I shouldn't recommend you lie so just avoid elaborating on 'who' is using it!)

[loxocemus]

id also add one of those rubber thumb thimble do'hickeys are good for a little rubbin' action, baby oil is good for softening (sp?) for really stuck on skin, its very safe and the snake has a loverly shine when finished

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