Scale rot?

Some of my males seem to get mild cases of scale rot late in the season around their vents. It looked a lot like the picture in that linked thread above... It's almost like they're giving it to themselves by overbreeding. Is this common?

Inflammation of the vent area and the tissue just inside it is common with some males that breed a lot but I'm not sure why there would be any major soreness. Anything that looks like scale rot on the scales around the vent I mean.

Just be sure to pull those particular breeders and give them a break for about a week. Ask your vet for some silver cream to have on hand. It clears up any irritation right away.

She went to the vet today. They removed the dead tissue and took a culture of the skin beneath, which revealed a lot of Gram-positive rod-shaped bacteria. She is to have a weak Betadine bath every day for two weeks; after the bath, she gets silver sulfadiazine. She's also on Ceftazidime given every three days.

She should be fed regularly, her newspapers should be changed daily, and humidity kept at 40-50% until her follow-up in two weeks. I'll try to get some pictures up soon for posterity.