Hello,
We adopted a 12+ month old male dragon sixteen days ago. I feel that the original owners took pretty good care of this guy, with the exception that he was probably not close enough to his insufficient 5.0 UVB and basking bulb. I have corrected his basking situation with the appropriate 10.0 UVB bulb, distance from it, and cage temperature.
We noticed last Friday that the outer toe on his right front foot was becoming swollen, so I started taking daily pictures. Th size does not appear to have changed much to today, but there is definitely some increased redness, discolored scale, and two small spots of bleeding that were not there the first two days. When we got him, his substrate was one of those sand mats, and they had a real log hide with bark on it in his cage as well. Our new reptile carpet was finally delivered on Saturday, so the sand mat was remove, and I also removed the log hid for now as we’re not sure if the bark or sand mat could have caused this injury.
We are scheduled to leave him with the vet all day tomorrow, so that they can see him when they have time, but I wonder if we could still deal with this at home. There is no other swelling in any other digit or joint, and the redness underneath has me suspect that he got poked by the bark or the sand mat. I see no foreign object in his toe, we have been soaking it daily, and applying Betadine to the bloody areas underneath.
Could the pros weigh in with their options about taking him to the vet tomorrow? Does that seem necessary at this point, or could we potentially resolve this ourselves?
Here are three pictures of his toe. Thank you for any help you can offer.
We adopted a 12+ month old male dragon sixteen days ago. I feel that the original owners took pretty good care of this guy, with the exception that he was probably not close enough to his insufficient 5.0 UVB and basking bulb. I have corrected his basking situation with the appropriate 10.0 UVB bulb, distance from it, and cage temperature.
We noticed last Friday that the outer toe on his right front foot was becoming swollen, so I started taking daily pictures. Th size does not appear to have changed much to today, but there is definitely some increased redness, discolored scale, and two small spots of bleeding that were not there the first two days. When we got him, his substrate was one of those sand mats, and they had a real log hide with bark on it in his cage as well. Our new reptile carpet was finally delivered on Saturday, so the sand mat was remove, and I also removed the log hid for now as we’re not sure if the bark or sand mat could have caused this injury.
We are scheduled to leave him with the vet all day tomorrow, so that they can see him when they have time, but I wonder if we could still deal with this at home. There is no other swelling in any other digit or joint, and the redness underneath has me suspect that he got poked by the bark or the sand mat. I see no foreign object in his toe, we have been soaking it daily, and applying Betadine to the bloody areas underneath.
Could the pros weigh in with their options about taking him to the vet tomorrow? Does that seem necessary at this point, or could we potentially resolve this ourselves?
Here are three pictures of his toe. Thank you for any help you can offer.