Patchy scales and some brown dots...

[redshepherd]

(Lots of threads lately...)

I upped the ambient temps to around 75~78, but Cake is still constantly active (if you remember my last thread about this). It hasn't gotten better. I even moved him down to a smaller tub with just the basic hide and water bowl to see if it would help, but it did not. He's just very active in that small space. When I take him out, he seems listless and tired from being active all day.

I also offered him his first F/T small rat (he was easily slamming F/T jumbo mice before) today. I do the whole heating + dunking in a bunch of dirty poopy mouse aspen. So the F/T rat was reeking of mouse. He showed no interested in it whatsoever. He literally looked past the rat right in front of his nose and kept going, like it was just a leaf.

I noticed this patchiness on his scales. Some scales are broken/missing. I realize he might also be nearing shed soon, but I need to be sure.

I'm particularly worried about these brown dots in one of the photos. They don't look like mites, and they don't move. Looks almost like a tiny bit of dried blood in some places.

I checked around his chin and mouth for signs of mites, but thankfully I didn't find anything...

He's on aspen. It's possible that the patchiness is from him climbing over everywhere and falling from these past few weeks, but I need to be sure...

These photos are straight from my iphone.





In this photo (below), there's a tiny bit of brown coloration, almost like a bit of dried blood from a wound on the patchy scales?





Please let me know what you think! Thanks.

So... the questions/issues here:

- patchiness on scales

- brown spots

- no interest in F/T small rat

- constantly active for unknown reason, so tired when I take him out

I took him out just now, and he just seems very tired. I don't know what's causing him to be so active all day. He's just sitting around my neck and not moving at all now, which is unusual, because normally he doesn't like staying on my neck.