beknluke
Very Well-Known Member
Hi Guys
On some of these beardies from Nth QLD, they had one or two small redish sores on ther scales. These have spread throughout the animals are are lifting their scales. When you pic them away, you're left with a small sore of fleshy skin and a little bit of blood.
Up till now, my vet has been telling me that it's skin infections and that the spreading was a sign of their ammune system packing it in.
I had been told to put bepanthen on them etc, but I found that this only made them worse.
It started around their eye area, then on to the cheek, lower jaw, neck/beard, then front legs and belly.
After calling the Melb Zoo and being advised to call the Cairns Tropical Zoo, they told me that they are 'wet sores' (I am assuming that that is what most people call humidity blisters or scale rot??) and to scrub them with Betadine DAILY, maybe pop them all on antibiotics and hope for the best.
Has anyone else experienced this and what have they done to fix it - and DID IT WORK????
I really wanna fix these guys and this is driving me nuts coz it is making some of them go off their food coz they're so overrun with them.
They're previous living arrangements: In a pit in Nth QLD.
Current living arrangements: 4x2x2 melamine enclosures, newspaper, no branches, plants, water bowls or sand. Tanks are almost cleaned daily.
THESE HAVE JUST STARTED GETTING WORSE OVER THE LAST 2 WEEKS!!
If you need pics, I will try to take some later.
Thanx in advance
Bex
On some of these beardies from Nth QLD, they had one or two small redish sores on ther scales. These have spread throughout the animals are are lifting their scales. When you pic them away, you're left with a small sore of fleshy skin and a little bit of blood.
Up till now, my vet has been telling me that it's skin infections and that the spreading was a sign of their ammune system packing it in.
I had been told to put bepanthen on them etc, but I found that this only made them worse.
It started around their eye area, then on to the cheek, lower jaw, neck/beard, then front legs and belly.
After calling the Melb Zoo and being advised to call the Cairns Tropical Zoo, they told me that they are 'wet sores' (I am assuming that that is what most people call humidity blisters or scale rot??) and to scrub them with Betadine DAILY, maybe pop them all on antibiotics and hope for the best.
Has anyone else experienced this and what have they done to fix it - and DID IT WORK????
I really wanna fix these guys and this is driving me nuts coz it is making some of them go off their food coz they're so overrun with them.
They're previous living arrangements: In a pit in Nth QLD.
Current living arrangements: 4x2x2 melamine enclosures, newspaper, no branches, plants, water bowls or sand. Tanks are almost cleaned daily.
THESE HAVE JUST STARTED GETTING WORSE OVER THE LAST 2 WEEKS!!
If you need pics, I will try to take some later.
Thanx in advance
Bex