Just thought I'd post an update for all the people who helped me out when Mr. Belt got the rot. He shed last night and its pretty much all cleared up! Theres once scale with soem very minor traces of it and thats it. allt he new scales are nice and white and none of them are raised up. I was so happy I gave him a big kiss! I'll be keeping him on newspaper indefinatly but I'm discontinuing the ointment. Thanks everyone!