That does look like scale rot. He should be seen by a vet. That's one of the very unfortunate parts about having exotics. You should always always be prepared to have to spend the money to take them in whenever necessary.
You also unfortunately made a very common mistake. You used neosproin regularly on a reptile. Neo is not made for anything with scales. Especially to treat a fungus or skin infection. I never recommend putting anything oil based on any animals with scales. It softens the scales only promoting infection and as you see it causes the scales to flake off. I would stop that immediately.
My second peice of advice is to immediately bleach his enclosure out to disinfect it. Use paper towels and you will need to keep his cage compleatly disinfected for as long as this takes to heal. It will need to be hospital clean. Many people use 2 different enclosures that they can switch into daily and bleach out the used one.
Thirdly, get betadyne and wash him in this daily. You can either put it right on the sores. Or create a beta bath. Water temp 88.f and put the beta in the bath until the water is tea colored. For him though I would recommend daily treating the sores with the straight betadyne daily and every other day give him a soak in the bath. Doesn't need to be for long maybe 5 min and then after the bath put the straight beta on the sores.
The most important part is to never put the neo on him again. And to keep that enclosure sterile.
Neosproin doesn't work for them like it does for us. You never ever want to keep applying it to an animal with scales. It does nothing good. I never use neo at all with any of mine for anything. For minor bite wounds or scratches I just apply betadyne and watch it. You should always keep a supply of betadyne handy.
I'll add again that he should be seen by a vet. These things can escalate to be more serious than it already is. In the meantime you can follow those earlier steps and it should help prevent it from getting worse.
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