beknluke
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Hi Guys
Well, after reading (and hearing :lol: ) zoe's updates on Nymph, I figured that it was probably about time that I updated you all on the '24 from QLD saga'
Ok, well, for starters, they all have names I tried to stick with the phonetic alphabet since that provided me with 26 names, and when I didn't like the name, I changed it to something more suitable that started with the same letter/sounded a bit more feminine or masculine :lol:
They are as follows:
Alpha - had back leg amputated but still thinks he's a spunk. Amputation is healing up quite well, eating like a pig, gorgeous soft yellow in colour
Brava - breathing through her mouth regularly and we thought it may have been an infection. Has a cripple front foot from an old break. Eating like a champion and is more or less healthy. Gorgeous orange and sometimes goes red.
Charlie - had a whole side of her face black and a huge lump on her chin. Also has lots of dead toes on her front feet. The whole side of her face scabbed up and came off!!! She has a lot of whity pink scar tissue there now but has working eyelids and a clear nostril. The lump on her chin is not believed to be an infection - just very 'over reactive scar tissue'. The vet refers to her as the 'ugly sister' lol, poor pumpkin!! Toes are slowly falling off and the stumps are healing up well! Colour unknown...
Delta - had her right front leg amputated, a lump under her vent, a bad eye and some scabs on her face. Ok, well, she laid 2 nasty looking eggs so that lump on her vent is GONE and apart from some saggyness and some scar tissue, her bum looks much better! Scabs came off her eye and again - another lot of perfectly functional eyelids were hiding under there!! Her leg had to be amputated again the vet in QLD was stupid enough to use dead skin to fold over the amputation and it killed the tissue. The new amputation is doing well. She eats like a horse and damn can she move fast!! :lol: I have found which pic was of her from the seller originally - she's a light mustard yellow in colour!!
Echo - bad eye. After a bath by Zo a few weeks back, the scabs came of and SURPRISE!! Perfect (though scarred) eyelids underneath!! She is related to Alpha - I can tell cos she's just started shedding and she's STUNNING!! I have just discovered that she is gravid tonight.
Foxtrot - gangrene, scabbed up face, way too much infection. Well, all of the gangrene has actually come away from the healthy tissue which is great - though it was a huge shock that night when she was squirming in my hand and all of a sudden I had half a foot lying in my palm!! The huge scabs have come off her face though it hasn't been quite as much of a success as Charlie and Echo. Her skin keeps trying to grow over her eye So there's a small slit there - enough that it just accommodates her pupil and that's about it, but I have to keep up all of the creams and wipe away any skin that tries to grow there. The rest of her face is whitish and full of scar tissue Oh well, at least she's on the mend?? She's getting Baytril daily and bepanthen over most of her body. She's gone off her food and I am having to force feed her. But some of the nasty looking that were in random places on her body have come away revealing perfect scars underneath And the dead toes have all come off. Colours unknown, but her patterns look a lot like Charlies' so they're probably sisters
Gizmo - sore foot and chin. Well, twice now the vet has pulled the sore red scabs off her chin and hopefully this time we'll just get scar tissue. The sore toe has come off, and she laid 5 small infertile eggs when I didn't know she was gravid!! She lost 60g in the process though so I think that she laid more and then ate them :? (It was while I was at work so she laid them on melamine) She's more or less fine now so hopefully won't need to harass the vet in a fortnight. She's a rusty dark orange colour so far.
Halo - sore chin. That sore chin is slowly getting better and I now just have a bit lump of scar tissue there. She probably won't have to go back to the vet next time. I discovered that she was gravid last week and she laid about 9 small infertile eggs in the enclosure. That was a bit disappointing coz she comes up a bright pinky red!!
India - bad eye. This eye is driving me up the wall as it's the only one that isn't showing any improvement - in fact, it got worse!! I have now got her on antibiotics called Vibra Vet at the recommendation of a member here and the vet is looking forward to seeing the results as he has never used it on reptiles. She quite likes it coz it is chocolate flavoured lol. Other than that, she's fine and she's bright orange
Juliet - early gravid and one sore toe. The dead toe has come away and us healing up nicely. Her eggs have not progressed however, and though the number seem to have reduced, if she doesn't either pass them or reabsorb the rest by their next appt, she might have to go under the knife and have them removed rather than run the risk of them rotting in her belly and causing infection. Aside from that, she's fat, healthy and is believed to be white with peach beard and yellow eyes.
Krystal - early brain damage, screwed nostril. Ok, so this one was gasping for air, stumbling around and had a big red fleshy plug in her nose. The plug was removed and has since filled in with scar tissue, the gasping is now occasional and she's no longer stumbling!! Looks as though the brain damage was minor and caught in its early stages and has managed to be reversed!! Yes - you heard right!! Apparently beardies can do this!! I am yet to see her bodys proper colour but her head is UNBELIEVABLE!! Bright orange and yellow STRIPED!!
London - sore chin. He's now perfect. He's vivid orange.
Mindy - She has 2 small skin infections on her belly, laid eggs about a fortnight ago and is in perfect health otherwise. She's bright orange.
Nova - She's fine, nothing was/is wrong with her. She's a red/orange colour, has an attitude and it looks like she's gravid.
Opal - sore chin. The scabs were pulled off again today, and we're hoping that she will just continue to develop the scar tissue. Otherwise she is fit and healthy. Again, another red/orange
Phoenix - sore chin. All scar tissue has healed over and he's now perfect. VIVID orange
Quartz - He had nothing wrong with him to start with. Bright orange with black markings.
Raja - sore toe. That dead toe is coming away slowly, but more sores have been found. Looks like they're healing but I still have to keep an eye on them. We've just discovered that she's gravid. She's rusty orange like Gizmo
Spyke - very sore chin. The dead tissue has all come away from his nose and chin and it appears to be healing slowly. All tissue around his jaw bone seems to be ok. He's orange with lavender markings and a red beard.
Tricky - Had a sore chin but he's fine now. Orange w/ lavender and red.
Yoda (didn't like any 'U' names lol) - he had nothing wrong with him and still doesn't. He's a yellowy colour.
Vega - gangrene, infections, red sores everywhere. Ok, he looks like he's getting better. Gangrene is coming away, dead toes coming off, after scabs were removed there was good scar tissue underneath etc. That goes for the red sores too. Still needs intensive bepanthen, but otherwise he's on the mend. Looks like he might be white w/ patterns under that skin that needs to shed!!
Whiskey - bad eye. He had an infection in his upper eyelid and 2 weeks ago had the whole thing come away!! Poor bugger had this look of shock stuck on his face lol. Fortunately no surgery was required as the lower lid came up and covered the whole eye. Since then, scar tissue has grown and made him a new upper eyelid!! It doesn't move at all, but it's there and is protective. I have to keep and eye on where the skin tries to grow coz it keeps trying to attach to the lower lid, but with a gentle wipe, it's kept under control and it looks like he will be fine! He's white with soft yellowy markings.
Zulu - extremely bad chin. The dead tissue is starting to soften up and come away, but it's all around the chin bone and we're worried that it might leave his jaw exposed, or worse still, the bone could get infected. He's gone on to Baytril daily and constant bepanthen. It looks really red, raw and inflamed and he's not to keen on eating most likely because of the pain. But we're hoping he'll be ok coz he's beautiful... He's orange all over, lavender markings, some yellow and some bright red...
So there you go - that's the update!! I would write more but it's late and I still have to put all their creams on
On an up note, I am resigning from my job so, for a little while at least, I will be home to keep an eye on them
Bex
OH!! And I am waiting for a call back from DSE to let me know where the investigation is at in regards to the seller and this whole saga. So please don't ask as I can't give out any futher info at this time. Sorry!!
Well, after reading (and hearing :lol: ) zoe's updates on Nymph, I figured that it was probably about time that I updated you all on the '24 from QLD saga'
Ok, well, for starters, they all have names
I tried to stick with the phonetic alphabet since that provided me with 26 names, and when I didn't like the name, I changed it to something more suitable that started with the same letter/sounded a bit more feminine or masculine :lol:They are as follows:
Alpha - had back leg amputated but still thinks he's a spunk. Amputation is healing up quite well, eating like a pig, gorgeous soft yellow in colour
Brava - breathing through her mouth regularly and we thought it may have been an infection. Has a cripple front foot from an old break. Eating like a champion and is more or less healthy. Gorgeous orange and sometimes goes red.
Charlie - had a whole side of her face black and a huge lump on her chin. Also has lots of dead toes on her front feet. The whole side of her face scabbed up and came off!!! She has a lot of whity pink scar tissue there now but has working eyelids and a clear nostril. The lump on her chin is not believed to be an infection - just very 'over reactive scar tissue'. The vet refers to her as the 'ugly sister' lol, poor pumpkin!! Toes are slowly falling off and the stumps are healing up well! Colour unknown...
Delta - had her right front leg amputated, a lump under her vent, a bad eye and some scabs on her face. Ok, well, she laid 2 nasty looking eggs so that lump on her vent is GONE and apart from some saggyness and some scar tissue, her bum looks much better! Scabs came off her eye and again - another lot of perfectly functional eyelids were hiding under there!! Her leg had to be amputated again
the vet in QLD was stupid enough to use dead skin to fold over the amputation and it killed the tissue. The new amputation is doing well. She eats like a horse and damn can she move fast!! :lol: I have found which pic was of her from the seller originally - she's a light mustard yellow in colour!!Echo - bad eye. After a bath by Zo a few weeks back, the scabs came of and SURPRISE!! Perfect (though scarred) eyelids underneath!! She is related to Alpha - I can tell cos she's just started shedding and she's STUNNING!! I have just discovered that she is gravid tonight.
Foxtrot - gangrene, scabbed up face, way too much infection. Well, all of the gangrene has actually come away from the healthy tissue which is great - though it was a huge shock that night when she was squirming in my hand and all of a sudden I had half a foot lying in my palm!! The huge scabs have come off her face though it hasn't been quite as much of a success as Charlie and Echo. Her skin keeps trying to grow over her eye
So there's a small slit there - enough that it just accommodates her pupil and that's about it, but I have to keep up all of the creams and wipe away any skin that tries to grow there. The rest of her face is whitish and full of scar tissue Oh well, at least she's on the mend?? She's getting Baytril daily and bepanthen over most of her body. She's gone off her food and I am having to force feed her. But some of the nasty looking that were in random places on her body have come away revealing perfect scars underneath And the dead toes have all come off. Colours unknown, but her patterns look a lot like Charlies' so they're probably sistersGizmo - sore foot and chin. Well, twice now the vet has pulled the sore red scabs off her chin and hopefully this time we'll just get scar tissue. The sore toe has come off, and she laid 5 small infertile eggs when I didn't know she was gravid!! She lost 60g in the process though so I think that she laid more and then ate them :? (It was while I was at work so she laid them on melamine) She's more or less fine now so hopefully won't need to harass the vet in a fortnight. She's a rusty dark orange colour so far.
Halo - sore chin. That sore chin is slowly getting better and I now just have a bit lump of scar tissue there. She probably won't have to go back to the vet next time. I discovered that she was gravid last week and she laid about 9 small infertile eggs in the enclosure. That was a bit disappointing coz she comes up a bright pinky red!!
India - bad eye. This eye is driving me up the wall as it's the only one that isn't showing any improvement - in fact, it got worse!! I have now got her on antibiotics called Vibra Vet at the recommendation of a member here and the vet is looking forward to seeing the results as he has never used it on reptiles. She quite likes it coz it is chocolate flavoured lol. Other than that, she's fine and she's bright orange
Juliet - early gravid and one sore toe. The dead toe has come away and us healing up nicely. Her eggs have not progressed however, and though the number seem to have reduced, if she doesn't either pass them or reabsorb the rest by their next appt, she might have to go under the knife and have them removed rather than run the risk of them rotting in her belly and causing infection. Aside from that, she's fat, healthy and is believed to be white with peach beard and yellow eyes.
Krystal - early brain damage, screwed nostril. Ok, so this one was gasping for air, stumbling around and had a big red fleshy plug in her nose. The plug was removed and has since filled in with scar tissue, the gasping is now occasional and she's no longer stumbling!! Looks as though the brain damage was minor and caught in its early stages and has managed to be reversed!! Yes - you heard right!! Apparently beardies can do this!! I am yet to see her bodys proper colour but her head is UNBELIEVABLE!! Bright orange and yellow STRIPED!!
London - sore chin. He's now perfect. He's vivid orange.
Mindy - She has 2 small skin infections on her belly, laid eggs about a fortnight ago and is in perfect health otherwise. She's bright orange.
Nova - She's fine, nothing was/is wrong with her. She's a red/orange colour, has an attitude and it looks like she's gravid.
Opal - sore chin. The scabs were pulled off again today, and we're hoping that she will just continue to develop the scar tissue. Otherwise she is fit and healthy. Again, another red/orange
Phoenix - sore chin. All scar tissue has healed over and he's now perfect. VIVID orange
Quartz - He had nothing wrong with him to start with. Bright orange with black markings.
Raja - sore toe. That dead toe is coming away slowly, but more sores have been found. Looks like they're healing but I still have to keep an eye on them. We've just discovered that she's gravid. She's rusty orange like Gizmo
Spyke - very sore chin. The dead tissue has all come away from his nose and chin and it appears to be healing slowly. All tissue around his jaw bone seems to be ok. He's orange with lavender markings and a red beard.
Tricky - Had a sore chin but he's fine now. Orange w/ lavender and red.
Yoda (didn't like any 'U' names lol) - he had nothing wrong with him and still doesn't. He's a yellowy colour.
Vega - gangrene, infections, red sores everywhere. Ok, he looks like he's getting better. Gangrene is coming away, dead toes coming off, after scabs were removed there was good scar tissue underneath etc. That goes for the red sores too. Still needs intensive bepanthen, but otherwise he's on the mend. Looks like he might be white w/ patterns under that skin that needs to shed!!
Whiskey - bad eye. He had an infection in his upper eyelid and 2 weeks ago had the whole thing come away!! Poor bugger had this look of shock stuck on his face lol. Fortunately no surgery was required as the lower lid came up and covered the whole eye. Since then, scar tissue has grown and made him a new upper eyelid!! It doesn't move at all, but it's there and is protective. I have to keep and eye on where the skin tries to grow coz it keeps trying to attach to the lower lid, but with a gentle wipe, it's kept under control and it looks like he will be fine! He's white with soft yellowy markings.
Zulu - extremely bad chin. The dead tissue is starting to soften up and come away, but it's all around the chin bone and we're worried that it might leave his jaw exposed, or worse still, the bone could get infected. He's gone on to Baytril daily and constant bepanthen. It looks really red, raw and inflamed and he's not to keen on eating most likely because of the pain. But we're hoping he'll be ok coz he's beautiful... He's orange all over, lavender markings, some yellow and some bright red...
So there you go - that's the update!! I would write more but it's late and I still have to put all their creams on
On an up note, I am resigning from my job so, for a little while at least, I will be home to keep an eye on them
Bex
OH!! And I am waiting for a call back from DSE to let me know where the investigation is at in regards to the seller and this whole saga. So please don't ask as I can't give out any futher info at this time. Sorry!!
