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Sorry for taking so long with the update! If’s been a very busy few months, but Tyr is doing great! So the vet I saw gave us 6 doses of ceftazidime injections with the first dose given in clinic. Basically, he suspects it could be infected with how slowly it was healing and we decided to treat...

Found a reptile vet here with over 30 years of experience and described as one of the leading experts in reptile medicine in the nation. I found an opening at a good time for me this Thursday, so hopefully they get me in just fine (the office isn't open today, so I was just booking online)...

How long does it usually take for a bug bite to heal? Just for reference. I'll definitely take him to the vet if it doesn't get any better for longer. I've had a chancre sore in my own mouth I've been stuck with for close to a month last year, so I have no idea if it could be similar in...

Okay, it's been almost a couple weeks since my last update and while the lump is smapler than before, it's also not getting any further than that. You can't tell from this photo, but it only flips out like that if I'm prying Tyr's mouth open (which he still does NOT appreciate, lol). I can...

Thank you! I've gone back and forth about this site as a possible source of silkworms since they only sell them small to medium in mixes, but I may actually go for it once Tyr can eat hard shells again. For now, I went with Coastal again so I can get about a month's supply of silkworms while...

Everything except the superworms are from Dubia. I got the superworms from Petsmart because it's just the right amount and those new transparent containers are nice. Does supplied affect the hardness or something? The crunchy bugs Tyr's getting are discoid roaches and supers. For the silkworms...

Update for Tyr: SO, the swelling was coming down slowly but surely over the past week with manuka honey and iodine treatment. Still awfully slow for a mouth wound though so I decided to look in Tyr's mouth as I was feeding him hard shelled bugs today and LO, the shells were of course making the...

tbf, the same can be said of iodine and anything else applied to the mouth except the concern is of toxicity rather than blood sugar levels. And in any case, it's only a very teeny-tiny amount on a q-tip to dab on a wound, so just a few days should be fine (mouth sores heal very quickly if kept...

Will do! Thank you, Tracie! I'm probably going to be grabbing manuka honey when I make a trip to the grocery later since I imagine he'd at least like the taste better than iodine, lol. The swelling looks a lot better today in any case.

After angling more carefully, I think I spotted a couple small punctures. Finally managed to get fresh shots too. Looks like he did get nipped by a superworm so I'm going to be dabbing the spot with more iodine.

if it doesn't go away on its own, I may do that. Seems like it's getting smaller now and I'm pretty sure I did not see it the other day, but we shall see.

I should also mention I have my current enclosure specs in my profile. Tyr is presently just snoozing on me and maintaining warmth through my body heat. He's not amused by me periodically checking his mouth so it's hard to get another photo, but it's halfway solid pink like the gums are halfway...

I noticed a little soft lump in Tyr's mouth while relaxing with him a bit ago when he gaped (he was taken out of his enclosure a little before that so I imagine he was letting off some heat) and, given how I'd lost Ardie not too long ago, got a little paranoid and checked in his mouth to take...

Thank you! That’s actually the name his previous human gave him, but I love it so I kept it the same (not that I’m inclined to change already given names either way, lol). I’m not as familiar with the Norse Pantheon as I am with the Greco-Roman one, but I do love their names for sure and this is...

You’re probably right because he’s just chilling up on my chest halfway in the snuggle sling, and actually climbed partly out to stare at and smell me a while. Which still leaves me wondering why he kept freaking out and shying away from me in his enclosure earlier and yesterday. As soon as I...

I had meant to post the day of arrival (11/06/24) but besides being busy, I was still a little too grieved about Ardie to really come back and post for a while. Still missing him, but the waves at least aren’t hitting as hard so I’m going to take the opportunity to officially introduce Tyr on...