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I have a 5 y/o male boa for 3 years. About three weeks ago my boy decided to spend a whole week in his water bowl soaking because he was shedding and in his opaque stage. He then developed scale/belly rot on about half of his belly. I took him to the vet as soon as I could get home to him and the vet gave him an antibiotic shot, a bottle of iodine, and some antibiotic ointment. He told me to soak Rusty in an iodine bath 10% iodine/90% water for 15 mins once a day until it heals, then rub antibiotic ointment on the scale rot after drying him off. Since his injury I have changed his substitute to newspaper, I change his water once a day and changed the size of the water bowl so he can’t soak any more, and raised his temp in the whole cage by 5 degrees, even in his basking area. His scale rot is healing great but about a week ago when I started to notice individual scales starting to come off with duller scales underneath, almost white; we had noticed it when my husband and I was applying the ointment. I am not sure what the problem is, he looks really healthy and functions fine. I when I took him to the vet he done a full exam on him looking closely with magnifying glasses to check for mites. He was clean of mites and the only problem was the scale rot. I am an experienced person with boas but this has stumped me to no end, even with extensive research. I thought it might be from the oils in the ointment. Some more expert help would be wonderful. I will post a few pics of the scales and then a few of him healthy, sorry about the quality it was the best I could do.
Thanks,
Jess, [email protected]
I have a 5 y/o male boa for 3 years. About three weeks ago my boy decided to spend a whole week in his water bowl soaking because he was shedding and in his opaque stage. He then developed scale/belly rot on about half of his belly. I took him to the vet as soon as I could get home to him and the vet gave him an antibiotic shot, a bottle of iodine, and some antibiotic ointment. He told me to soak Rusty in an iodine bath 10% iodine/90% water for 15 mins once a day until it heals, then rub antibiotic ointment on the scale rot after drying him off. Since his injury I have changed his substitute to newspaper, I change his water once a day and changed the size of the water bowl so he can’t soak any more, and raised his temp in the whole cage by 5 degrees, even in his basking area. His scale rot is healing great but about a week ago when I started to notice individual scales starting to come off with duller scales underneath, almost white; we had noticed it when my husband and I was applying the ointment. I am not sure what the problem is, he looks really healthy and functions fine. I when I took him to the vet he done a full exam on him looking closely with magnifying glasses to check for mites. He was clean of mites and the only problem was the scale rot. I am an experienced person with boas but this has stumped me to no end, even with extensive research. I thought it might be from the oils in the ointment. Some more expert help would be wonderful. I will post a few pics of the scales and then a few of him healthy, sorry about the quality it was the best I could do.
Thanks,
Jess, [email protected]
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