Hi.
I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem with one of my macs I discovered last night.
She shares an enclosure with another (same age and size), but the other one doesn't have the problem at all.
Her belly has a lot of red patches, which look like subcutaneous bleeding, and she also has a lesion which worries me. It had a loose, dry scab, which came off easily, to which I applied Betadine.
Has anybody seen anything like this? I suspect a trip to the vet might be in order, but I was hoping that someone might recognise it.
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This is the same mac who had a very small, partial shed about a month ago. She went the normal bluish tinge, but then went back to normal, as though she had re-absorbed her shedding fluid. She had white patches that looked like loose skin, so on advice from other members I soaked her in a wet pillowcase and manually removed the skin for her. It came off fairly easily. I'm wondering now whether removing the skin manually like that might have been the wrong thing to do. :-(
Thanks in advance. :-(
I'm hoping someone can help me with a problem with one of my macs I discovered last night.
She shares an enclosure with another (same age and size), but the other one doesn't have the problem at all.
Her belly has a lot of red patches, which look like subcutaneous bleeding, and she also has a lesion which worries me. It had a loose, dry scab, which came off easily, to which I applied Betadine.
Has anybody seen anything like this? I suspect a trip to the vet might be in order, but I was hoping that someone might recognise it.
Photos are in : http://www.aussiepythons.com/module...ame=gallery&file=index&include=view_album.php
This is the same mac who had a very small, partial shed about a month ago. She went the normal bluish tinge, but then went back to normal, as though she had re-absorbed her shedding fluid. She had white patches that looked like loose skin, so on advice from other members I soaked her in a wet pillowcase and manually removed the skin for her. It came off fairly easily. I'm wondering now whether removing the skin manually like that might have been the wrong thing to do. :-(
Thanks in advance. :-(