What is the problem?
A bit of detective work and common-sense will soon sort out whether the eye problem that your tortoise or turtle is suffering from is because of an infection or an injury. To begin with, it is unlikely to be an infection if it is only on one side. If there are signs like a swollen lid or one eye is closed, it is likely to be because of a scratch or possibly a small burn if there is a heat lamp in the habitat. If the tortoise is out in the garden, it could be a sting or a thorn has affected the eye. If the eye is closed and is gummy, it may help to try and get it open with a cotton wool ball soaked in boiled water that has been allowed to cool almost to room temperature. If this doesn’t work, then a visit to the vet is in order.
To me it looks like hardened pus - what we call an eye cap. It should come off the eyeball easily. Try to grab it with tweezers, being very careful of the eye itself. Be very gentle in case I'm wrong and it IS the third eyelid.
You'll have to hold the head out of the shell by grasping it behind the jaws.
If you can't do that, then buy (if your petshop doesn't have it, you can buy it online) this product:
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Apply it to the eye several times a day.
The third eyelid looks more like this:
I don't think your picture is showing the third eyelid.
If that white glob is hardened pus, all the medication in the world won't make it go away. It has to be removed. If there is an infection in the eye your medication will be helpful, but will do nothing to remove that hardened pus.
If that white glob is hardened pus, all the medication in the world won't make it go away. It has to be removed. If there is an infection in the eye your medication will be helpful, but will do nothing to remove that hardened pus.
Sounds like a pretty sick tortoise. Should be on antibiotics prescribed by a vet. I think you need to try to find someone there in your area to help you.
I hope it is not too late. I suspected a RI with my very first post.I don’t think there are reptile vets.. there are only cats and dogs vets.. but I can do a check on some vet I saw before in a few days.
Yesterday, I found this white thing in the tortoises eye after it woke up. Some said it’s just a gummy eye cause it was sleeping and I tried placing a hot humid cotton on its eye and it’s sleeping now, can someone tell me what this is?
Yesterday:
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Today:
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