Stress marks on tail only during shed

[randommonks]

Hi I'm sorry if this has been handled before but I didn't seem to find the answer I was looking for

Darwin has been shedding nearly nonstop for a month now. Each other part of her body has shed 3 times now, but her tail has only shed once. It's looked like it wants to shed for a while now, but has shown no signs of coming off. I've read about the cocoa butter, which I bought a stick of and rubbed over his back (which also needed to shed) and his tail last night. This evening after coming home from work, the skin on his back had exploded all over the tank but his tail still looks dingy and stubborn. I've also noticed that while the rest of his underside is white, his tail has some pretty dark stress marks. The tail is very flexible (Darwin uses it as a whip at times) throughout the entire length, so for now I'm dodging tail rot or retained shed.

This is his tail, which has been grey for about a month now. It has a small dent, for a lack of better words, near the very tip of it, I suspect from a cricket nip even though I was very careful about removing them after he was done eating.

This is his belly and tail. His belly is showing some stress marks, but that was because I woke him up and held him vertically for a minute, which he did not appreciate. But his tail's marks are constantly there, even when his belly is completely white.

My questions are:
Is this normal for a beardie going through a tough shed (to only have one part of his body with stress marks)?

Besides the cocoa butter and daily baths, is there anything else I can do? I have heard of the reptile shed aids, but don't want to spend $8 on it if it's not necessary or there are more natural means.

 

[HaleyMaree]

The small dent can be tail rot, I would post " could it be tail rot" in the beardie health section. Hope this helps! But I don't know much about stress marks

 

[randommonks]

The small dent can be tail rot, I would post " could it be tail rot" in the beardie health section. Hope this helps! But I don't know much about stress marks

Yeah I do think I need to change the title to something less mundane and overdone. I'm pretty sure it's not tail rot, because the tail wriggles fine and all that. I was just concerned because his tail hadn't shed in the 2 times his other body parts have and seemed to perpetually have stress marks when his belly was white. Oh well. Hopefully this will settle itself but thanks for the feedback!

 

[HaleyMaree]

Sure but tail rot is just a dent until something more happens but I am sure this is not the problem!! And basically this should all pass.

 

[GeckoGarden]

My girl gets stress marks when she sheds, she hates it.

The tail looks like it has a retained shed,

give the little one a warm bath and gently gently brush the tail with a tooth brush to help the shed

 

[randommonks]

My girl gets stress marks when she sheds, she hates it.

The tail looks like it has a retained shed,

give the little one a warm bath and gently gently brush the tail with a tooth brush to help the shed

Blah that's what I've been doing for a week. I'll have to get a toothbrush and try that. I was afraid it was retained shed, since there might be two layers of shed surrounding the tail. He's still moving it, yesterday even wiggled the tip for me, so I know he still has full function of it. Might go out and try the Shed Aid as a last resort.