alright thanks for the info, i left him alone, and will try again later this week or i will talk to the vet when I go, because I also fed him a nice fat hopper tonight. and hopefully the wound would have healed better by then aswell.

Thanks for the info, It makes me feel a lot better knowing that even though his wound looks bad, it may not be as bad. And that having the shed on his tail wont be too harmful.

PS. This sounds completely noobish (even though I am completely a nood) but what does IMO mean?