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Leopard gecko eye infection?

Asked by leopardgecko123 (777points) August 18th, 2011

My leo, Charlie, has recently been keeping his left eye closed as if it hurts. After a few weeks, it looked cloudy and a few weeks later this stuff that looked like dead skin showed up in his eye at the bottom. Is it dead skin? He shed about a week before I noticed this and his skin was stuck on his head, right over his eyes, for almost the whole night. In the morning he had shed and had eaten his skin, but was closing both eyes. Now he’s moving slow and it doesn’t seem like he can see very well. I don’t feed him crickets. When I was feeding him meal worms they were moving right in front of him and I think he might have seen them, but he wouldn’t try to catch them. I CANNOT TAKE HIM TO A VET! There are no vets in my city that treat any kind of small animal except for dogs and cats – no reptiles, no bunnies, none. So do not tell me to take him to a vet unless you know of a place that can fix him in Tyler, Texas! If you have any idea how to help him without a vet please say! Would baths help? Or some kind of eye drops from Petsmart? Anything? Is it even an eye infection? Please help!

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