A couple of days ago the heater under my Lesser male's tank spiked (was at about 105 degrees when I checked it!) and so I initially thought the redness in his belly scales were just some minor burns but now after finding that he has rubbed off most of the scales on his underside (you can kind of see how raw they look in the pictures) I'm starting to think that this is scale rot. Really, it looks pretty awful and I can tell that he is very uncomfortable as I see him maintaining these very rigid positions to keep the worst parts off the floor of his tank.


I scrubbed his tank clean and tried to make sure its as sterile as possible in case there is any of that nasty bacteria still around and I was considering flushing out the affected areas with water as well but from what I've read moisture will just exacerbate things if this is indeed scale rot. Vet appointment has been made for Saturday so I hope that this can be treated as easily as possible.
I just feel so awful not catching this sooner!