Today like every week, I was giving all the skinks a bath and cleaning cages. I was holding Bug after she had soaked for a while. When I looked under her mouth on to her chin the "Calcium" build up there looks HORRID. It was black and looked like an infection waiting to happen. She had a scale hanging from it, and the mass was loose from soaking, so while she looked a way I went for it and pulled on the scale. What came out was nothing like what I expected. It was a piece of something that had become infected, and her body had somehow contained the infection using a film of what looks like calcium. It came out cleanly and she has a hole, yes a hole in her flesh in her chin, A direct hole, in her chin. No infection looks clean and just fine. I put her on paper towels and she is acting fine. I will add pictures of her and the "thing" that came out of her chin. I think I need to put the breeder where I got her from on the "No NO" list. She has WAY more issues than Wardo or Bon Qui and they are both WC, there is no excuse for that! All of her issues are caused by human neglect, and improper care.
Bug is a sweet heart though, and as soon as I put her back in her tank she was eating some Cat food. Which I all I can feed right now as the skinks are being stubborn and won’t eat anything with greens in it. Come spring its war.
Old Images of her-
Day 1
Day 2
Day 5- You can see the main thing on her chin with the loose scale hanging off. Thats what I pulled, after a LONG soak.
Brand new images, she looks so much better!
The chin has already started to heal, and looks very good.
you might want to keep an eye out for the area that had the hole in it, as something else might get in and start the process off again, have you put anything on the area/hole like iodine or antibac cream?
Give me a good price? Its in my blood to be cheap.