This is my first beardie and I got him from a friend a few weeks ago. A week ago I noticed about half an inch of his tail was darker and all dried up hard and dead looking. I did research and figured it is tail rot, I've been giving him baths allot, that part of the tail was shedding but most of the scales have came off now. A week later it has spread more. I'm going to start dipping in betadine, giving daily baths and putting mineral oil on it. Is this what I should be doing? If it doesn't get any better I'll have to take to a vet I assume.
He is very active and eats good, no signs of being sick, hes a very friendly guy too.
Any opinions on if this is really tail rot and what else I can do about it would be greatly appreciated.
Here's my setup:
The bulbs I am using are a compact flouro Zoo-Med Repti Sun 10 UVB desert and a Zoo-Med 75w UVA basking bulb. The flooring is new repticarpet and theres a heat pad under the tank. I feed him small crickets daily coated with reptivite every other day and romaine lettuce in between crickets. Clean fresh filtered water changed every day. I monitor the temps and it stays between 95 and 105 during the day, right under the basking light, and doesn't go below 70 at night. I have not been monitoring humidity however.
Here's some pics.
You can see where the tail starts to get hard a little above that on the live part of the tail it is greyish.
He is very active and eats good, no signs of being sick, hes a very friendly guy too.
Any opinions on if this is really tail rot and what else I can do about it would be greatly appreciated.
Here's my setup:
The bulbs I am using are a compact flouro Zoo-Med Repti Sun 10 UVB desert and a Zoo-Med 75w UVA basking bulb. The flooring is new repticarpet and theres a heat pad under the tank. I feed him small crickets daily coated with reptivite every other day and romaine lettuce in between crickets. Clean fresh filtered water changed every day. I monitor the temps and it stays between 95 and 105 during the day, right under the basking light, and doesn't go below 70 at night. I have not been monitoring humidity however.
Here's some pics.
You can see where the tail starts to get hard a little above that on the live part of the tail it is greyish.