Ive come home and his eye is shut again. Ive cleaned it with water and it opens :o( Any ideas whats up? There is no discharge, is it the tort form of glue eye?

has it been like this since you got him? what substrate are you using? what is the temps and humidity etc.i will be back in half an hour or so got to run some errands.

Substrate is orchid bark that i keep moist and that coconut husk stuff. Temps 95 deg F at hot end, 75 Deg F cool end. Humidity varies from 60% to 80%, but usually sits at about 60%.
He seems to have only done it in the past few days :o( I thought I had cleared it up by washing the eye and washing the orchid bark.

Thanks for your help, your a star!

When he opens the eye do you see any white stuff? If the eye is wide and clear when it is open I wouldn't give it much thought.

Is the tortoise acting normally... cruising around... hunting... eating... drinking... self regulating...? If yes... he's fine.

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No EJ, no white goo in his eye. He is acting normal too. He keeps it shut for ages though and his right eye will be open. Im thinking maybe he catches it on the orchid bark???
Cheers for the speedy reply.

When i first had my tortoise his eye used to do the same, it would open slower than the other and did seem a little puffy, but the actual eye itself looked fine, i took him to a vet and they said that it was fine. It did go down after a few months and he's never had any problems since. I think as long as there is no discharge then it's fine!

but he seems to keep it closed for a long time. It wasn't until i washed it that he opened it, and it stayed quite small after that.

Totally agree... be aware of it but don't worry to much about it.

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Hi

If theres no discharge or swelling then just monitor it.

One of my one year olds had a swollen eye last year. We think he had knocked it on something. There was a bit of a mark above his eye. He took to staying in the hide as he was obviously scared as he couldn't see out of it. We took to bathing his head in very slightly salted water and getting his eye open. We also put newspaper under the house so he couldn't dig down and get muck in it. It cleared up fine. Don't know if the washes helped or if he just had a tortoise black eye that would have sorted itself out. Keeping the soil and stuff out of his eye was a precaution too.

Baldricks doesn't look swollen. Just telling you what happened with mine last year. Keep watching it and keep rinsing it. It doesn't look worrying from the picture but obviously vigilance is key.

Okie dokie, it seems to come and go..think I might get rid of the cypress bark for a bt and see what happens. Maybe im not keeping it moist enough?