Sulcata hatchling jaw injured! Help!
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It's hard to say what happened. Could he have got jammed with a stick while walking? That's what I would guess, a stick or something jammed into him. But, it's just a guess. Keep it cleaned and keep an eye on it.
Nope. I saw him tear it right infront of me, at first he does it quite often then his jaw looked whitish and just now while he was eating, scraped it with his own hands and it tore.
Btw, he is eating well and walking well and all apart from having this wound.
Btw, he is eating well and walking well and all apart from having this wound.
would it be a similar case to http://www.tortoiseforum.org/threads/baby-sulcata-had-growth-on-face-now-a-crater.60309/?
Does he live alone? That looks like it could be a bite mark. Looks like another mark on his rear leg.
yes I've separated them as you highlighted in my earlier post. Nope thats just coconut coir. Gonna get cypress mulch cause the coir is too messy. definitely not a bite mark cause i saw it happened. Do you think it might be abscess?
Wow, it does look very similar. Maybe something was there that you just didn't notice that made him claw at it. Maybe something inside that couldn't be seen. You should try to measure it or make a mental image of how big it is, do you can make sure it doesn't get bigger. If you think some antibiotic cream could be put on it, but not get in his mouth, you could do that. However, for now I think I would just keep it clean and keep a close eye on it. Keep us posted too. Good luck. Hope it just heals and nothing else becomes of it.
I washed it, dried it and applied aloe vera as it would be better than risking it eating antibiotic cream I suppose, what's your thought?
nope, alone.
He didn't give any Baytril. At least I'm not seeing where he said he did.
Good idea with the aloe. Maybe do a good check over of his enclosure to make sure there is nothing in it that could be biting him, like a spider, etc. then keep up with keeping it clean and the aloe shouldn't hurt to use either after its cleaning.
Nope no baytril
Yeah checking ever hour to make sure no coconut coir gets in his wound.
Thanks alot guys! The response rate in this forum is great!!
Under the
Strange behaviour of my 4 month old baby sulcata
thread you said you were using Baytril. Plus there was a second tort. Something is a bit off.
Strange behaviour of my 4 month old baby sulcata
thread you said you were using Baytril. Plus there was a second tort. Something is a bit off.
Ah that is another thread that I suspected it has RI from yawning alot. Yeah there was but I split them already based on a few comments to not house them together. I only put them together under supervision. Btw, they are from the same clutch, just some side info haha.
