gworfish
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Hi everyone,
Our baby, Essther, just had her second shed in our care. Her first shed wasn't as smooth as I'd have liked - lots of bits that didn't come off with the shed which I blame on living in such a dry climate and not having provided a damp mossy hide as quickly as we could have. So this time she had the mossy hide well in advance of getting ready for a shed, and once we noticed the general dullness we started misting the tank.
Anyway, this morning we spotted her skin. Yay! I noticed the tail didn't seem to be entirely there, so I wanted to get her out right away and make sure her tale was safe. I also noticed some colour on one of the head scales, not black which we get a bit of all over, but some red, and on a location where it hadn't seemed to come off properly last time around. I was concerned about the tail, so I pulled her out right away, and her tail looked just fine (she must have got it off as a separate piece elsewhere), but when looking at her head, we saw a grey spot where the coloured scale had come off (see attachment).
It doesn't look like a wound, not wet or anything like that, just grey and slightly recessed relative to the surrounding scales. Any thoughts or advice would be warmly welcomed.
Thanks,
Ian.
Our baby, Essther, just had her second shed in our care. Her first shed wasn't as smooth as I'd have liked - lots of bits that didn't come off with the shed which I blame on living in such a dry climate and not having provided a damp mossy hide as quickly as we could have. So this time she had the mossy hide well in advance of getting ready for a shed, and once we noticed the general dullness we started misting the tank.
Anyway, this morning we spotted her skin. Yay! I noticed the tail didn't seem to be entirely there, so I wanted to get her out right away and make sure her tale was safe. I also noticed some colour on one of the head scales, not black which we get a bit of all over, but some red, and on a location where it hadn't seemed to come off properly last time around. I was concerned about the tail, so I pulled her out right away, and her tail looked just fine (she must have got it off as a separate piece elsewhere), but when looking at her head, we saw a grey spot where the coloured scale had come off (see attachment).
It doesn't look like a wound, not wet or anything like that, just grey and slightly recessed relative to the surrounding scales. Any thoughts or advice would be warmly welcomed.
Thanks,
Ian.
