Hi,
I moved to New York from Dallas last weekend and it was stressfull for both me and Buddha.
I need few clarifications, hope some senior member has little time.

Please pardon my lengthy descriptions.

1. The day I was moving I noticed Buddha had cloudy eyes and was in the process of shedding, so further not to stress him out I neither turn on the A/C nor the music for all 34 hours drive. I maintained around 70 -75 degrees with the help of the car heater. And I used that plastic reptile carry cage with ventilated lid from petco.
As of now he is still in that cage and has a dark heat light , only one hide, small water bowl, paper towels as substrate, maintaing the temparatures 70-75 on cold side and 80-87 on warm side (the hide side).

Will this setup be OK, for next 2 weeks (max) ??
I am looking for new apartments, things are too expensive here
Once I move in to the new place, I will buy the regular 40 gallon and will put his stuff from previous terrarium in there (waterfall, multple hides, heat regulator, UTH, big bowl, and many such things)


2.* Today, I saw his shed process was complete, all in one piece but had few blood stains on the tissue paper. Why the blood stains ??


3.**This is the worst part, As his shed was complete, I bought two mice (his regualr size) and fed him. He ate them all good and I tried to replace the paper towels (the mice made them wet), he made a swift move into his hide and had a cut/nick on his neck and is slighlty swollen
It is a small cut and he defintely got after the feeding (I din't see the mice scratcing him)

What should I do now?
Should I wait for a day or two and check how it is(Don't they have a nice immune/anti-bodies in them).
Should I immeditely apply neosporin ( I have all precautionary , safety stuff in hand, just in case). My mother always said, never use medicines untill its really necessary, most should heal automatically
Is vet visit definitely necessary right away?


He was such a friendly guy, now he is fearing my very appearance and trying to crawl away into the hide He never bites though.

Thank you and I really appreciate your time.


-Phani