She was on Aspen which I had been spot cleaning. What I have since learned from the vet is that bacteria still remains. Here I was thinking I was doing ok by taking out hunks of Aspen where her droppings and urates had been and I actually wasn't doing good enough.
She had a heat mat that was not supposed to reach over 100 degrees or so ever but I just noticed she keeps burrowing under her aspen. She burrows under her newspaper. She won't stop, so I had to unplug her heat mat a few days ago because she is probably going to get burned, even with a thermostat I am concerned (and one is on the way!) because she is right up against it.
We put her on newspaper as substrate.
I have some new pictures and I will repost the old ones here. The vet had no clue what it could be and said it wasn't scale rot. No culture was taken.
I also took EVERYTHING out of her tank and disinfected it twice. I could not ever find chlorhexadine or whatever it is called so before we bought the Zoo Med "Wipe Out" solution I had been using water (a month ago and before that, we got it this month) to clean tanks. What the heck is that chlorhexadine stuff and do I still need it if I have wipe out?
I replaced her hide with a home-made one that is easier to clean and replaced her water bowl with a new one. I change her newspaper daily.
:/
Pictures coming in a minute.
(and I checked her--the places that are gray look like scabs. there are no scales left. This happened overnight, I kid you not, the day after she shed...)