Indigo skin problem

Posted by Dean Goudie on December 28, 2001 at 15:11:35:

Hi Guys;

Here's 1 for you all, I've got an adult Indigo I bought a few months ago from a petshop. He came with a bit of a burn mark on his tail, now 2 sheds later he's almost as good as new. However I had him out the other night & noticed what appeared to look like little scabs between the scales around his tail / cloaca area, they come off like little dried pieces of skin, kinda black in color (guess that's the melanin in the skin). They don't seem to be getting any worst & I just put some polysporin on it, the same as I did with his tail @ 1st.

Sometimes I notice that there appears to be a little dry skin between his scales all over so I just spray him with a light mist & wipe him down with a face cloth to sort of 'exfoliate' him a little. Truth be known he seems to enjoy the attention.

Is this something I should be concerned about?? He's still eating like a horse (& crapping like 1 too :-) Just thought I'd run it by you all just to see what you guys may think. Fred? Dean? Doug? Dwight?? Any comments???

Hope everyone had a great Christmas

Dean

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: Hi Guys; : Here's 1 for you all, I've got an adult Indigo I bought a few months ago from a petshop. He came with a bit of a burn mark on his tail, now 2 sheds later he's almost as good as new. However I had him out the other night & noticed what appeared to look like little scabs between the scales around his tail / cloaca area, they come off like little dried pieces of skin, kinda black in color (guess that's the melanin in the skin). They don't seem to be getting any worst & I just put some polysporin on it, the same as I did with his tail @ 1st. : Sometimes I notice that there appears to be a little dry skin between his scales all over so I just spray him with a light mist & wipe him down with a face cloth to sort of 'exfoliate' him a little. Truth be known he seems to enjoy the attention. : Is this something I should be concerned about?? He's still eating like a horse (& crapping like 1 too :-) Just thought I'd run it by you all just to see what you guys may think. Fred? Dean? Doug? Dwight?? Any comments??? : Hope everyone had a great Christmas : Dean

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