| I had three blonde maccies, hatchies, all going really well until at about 3 months of age, within a few weeks of each other their spectacles all looked 'dented' or caved in. When I saw the first one I thought it had just injured itself somehow. Over the next three weeks one by one the other 5 eyes went the same way. The snakes were kept separately and in identical setups to the way I've raised heaps of snakes including other maccies without problem. I took them to the vet, despite the fact that I despise vets and mainly because I knew everyone would scream at me if I didn't. End result was a bunch of money wasted on a complete moron who didn't have a credible thing to say but spouted off a whole load of complete garbage to justify charging me money (I won't name him but many consider him to be the best herp vet in Melbourne). Months later it seemed clear their eyes would never recover, I wouldn't ever have wanted to breed them and their lives were going to be in quaranteen forever, just for the extaordinarily slim chance of the condition being caused by a pathogen (I won't go into detail but it clearly wasn't pathogenic).
The vet's eventual conclusion (after I explained to him why it couldn't have been any of his first 5 hypotheses) was that the condition was caused by giving them heat mats. I couldn't explain to him that this was stupid. 'best herp vet in Melbourne' what a joke.
I am still at a loss to explain the condition, I have a few ideas and am interested in this case which sounds similar. It may be something different but 'crinkled eye coverings' sounds like it.
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