Hello! About a week ago I rescued a baby beardie (around 3-4 months old)
He was kept with a coil 10.0 bulb as uvb/light source and a red bulb for heat. Kept on white vitasand and fed on the tank, no other enrichment other than a single branch. Almost no human interaction. He/she had a broken tail with a dry tip and was pooping sand.
Right now he/she's being kept in a 40 gal with a 75w spotlight and an arcadia 12% tube mounted inside the tank. He/she eats like a monster and I can see him/her growing. We named him/her Bailey's due to the colors (and all my lizards having alcoholic names
) Humidity is 40%, temps are 105-110F on basking spot and 80-85F on cold area.
Baileys had a kinked tail and the tip fell off three days ago; and healed well and the poop no longer has any sand on it.
However, I did notice that the tail, about 3-4 cms above the broken tip, had a wound on it. It almost looks like the scales were lifted over the tail? Baileys has shed the tail already but the wound is still there... I'm worried about tail rot. I'm cleaning the tail daily with iodine in water and raw honey and doesn't really seem infected, but I'm unsure if it's better to take the beardie to a vet for amputation?
Pics of Baileys in next post. Thanks!
He was kept with a coil 10.0 bulb as uvb/light source and a red bulb for heat. Kept on white vitasand and fed on the tank, no other enrichment other than a single branch. Almost no human interaction. He/she had a broken tail with a dry tip and was pooping sand.
Right now he/she's being kept in a 40 gal with a 75w spotlight and an arcadia 12% tube mounted inside the tank. He/she eats like a monster and I can see him/her growing. We named him/her Bailey's due to the colors (and all my lizards having alcoholic names
) Humidity is 40%, temps are 105-110F on basking spot and 80-85F on cold area.Baileys had a kinked tail and the tip fell off three days ago; and healed well and the poop no longer has any sand on it.
However, I did notice that the tail, about 3-4 cms above the broken tip, had a wound on it. It almost looks like the scales were lifted over the tail? Baileys has shed the tail already but the wound is still there... I'm worried about tail rot. I'm cleaning the tail daily with iodine in water and raw honey and doesn't really seem infected, but I'm unsure if it's better to take the beardie to a vet for amputation?
Pics of Baileys in next post. Thanks!
