Help with a health issue, Red spots/scales
Hi all
Perhaps someone can help with a problem I have having with my Pied.
She has these red/pink spots under her scales. It looks like the skin is pushing up from the affected scales. Her belly also has pink areas.
Any ideas on what this is?? It is not mites of that I am sure.
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Thanks in advance
Re: Help with a health issue, Red spots/scales
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Originally Posted by
Bundu Boy
Hey all
So i think out figured out the problem with my pied. Humidity.
What i have done is lower humidity right down and i now keep her on paper towels. Her water bowl is kept away from the heat pad. she now looks great and in fact has started eating again after a period of about 5 months.
Has anyone else heard of humidity creating this condition. All my other balls are doing great in a humidity range of 50 - 70%.
Yes. Too much humidity is not a good thing. Especially when the tubs and enclosures we keep these animals in suck with regards to air flow.
Humidity breeds mold, fungus, bacteria, etc. If waste is not cleaned up quickly and thoroughly and can rapidly lead to unsanitary conditions.
50% humidity is fine as long as you don't have to spritz the heck out of the enclosure. At 70% you are over the limit of what most of these set ups can handle in terms of air flow.
Re: Help with a health issue, Red spots/scales
I had a similar issue with "water blisters" on a girl that liked to hide in her water bowl (all the time), instead of her regular hides. I replaced her bowl with one too small for her to fit into, did a week of betadine soaks, and the bumps were gone in two sheds.
Re: Help with a health issue, Red spots/scales
Hi,
this is an older thread, but i must aks you, if the red spots are disappeared?
I think they come from mite bites or other parasites.
Maybe you now know more...
best regards
Balla
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Bundu Boy
Hey all
So i think out figured out the problem with my pied. Humidity.
What i have done is lower humidity right down and i now keep her on paper towels. Her water bowl is kept away from the heat pad. she now looks great and in fact has started eating again after a period of about 5 months.
Has anyone else heard of humidity creating this condition. All my other balls are doing great in a humidity range of 50 - 70%.