Quote Originally Posted by loonunit View Post
That is severe scale rot. You can assume there's blood poisoning. Emergency vets are pricey, but if you want it to have any chance whatsoever of surviving, you need to get baytril injections or better into that animal ASAP.

Honestly, the animal's chances are 50/50 right now. Untreated, he might not last until Monday. Even if he does, the antibiotics will almost certainly be too late.

At this point I think you should weigh the price of the ER care (several hundred $$ minimum) vs. giving the animal a chance that may or may not save it.
Well at first i thought it was scale rot when his skin started to be abnormally colored, but from how the scales feel and how all of the substrate was dug up, i think its more likely a burn because he was sitting ontop of the glass right above the heating pad. But i still think its a 50/50 chance