Lizard shedding proublems need help?

Question

ok my iguana has been shedding for days and days and the skin is not falling off i got him from a previouse owner and its toes are black it has black spotts on him what is there that i can do to help him he can barelly move

Answer 1

Try misting him regularly.. maybe that will help.

I hope he's okay, and everything goes good for you!!

Answer 2

It sounds like it could possibly be fungus or bacterial infection. A herp/reptile vet would have to determine that or not. When my girl lived in her tank years ago, she did get a bacterial infection, which I thought was a long shed, but never shedded. I had to give her liquid medication daily for a few days, and it was gone.

Try some mineral oil, after bath time just put some on the area, see if it helps.

W/ black spots it does lean me towards stress, heating problem or fungus/bacterial.

http://www.anapsid.org/iguana/blackspot....

http://www.anapsid.org/blackskin.html

I would go to a herp/reptile vet, just in case it could be fungus/bacterial problem, could get the medication and get it started. If it's something else like just a bad shed at least it will be an ease of mind type of thing. But again w/ the black spots it's leading me to one of the 3 I listed above. I am not a vet, so I can't give medical advise.

W/ you saying he can barely move, that to me would be a sign VET NOW type of thing. There has to be something going on, maybe he broke a bone, could be start of MBD, so many possible IF's, so best to see a vet to know for sure what it could possibly be.

If you don't have a vet, hopefully one of these sites will have a vet near you ... I drive 4 hours to my iguanas vet, and have a vet 1 hour away for those "emergency" type of things:

http://www.herpvetconnection.com/

http://www.arav.org/Directory.htm

http://www.anapsid.org/vets/#vetlist

Sites for you to read:

http://www.greenigsociety.org/ - http://www.iguanaden.org/ - http://www.anapsid.org/iguana/index.html

A great book to read and have on hand:

Iguanas for Dummies by Melissa Kaplan

Yahoo has some great sites for Iguana owners... these groups helped me and still help w/ questions .. if you'd like to join:

http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/BabyI... - http://pets.groups.yahoo.com/group/Iguan...

* hopefully it's not tooooo serious when you do go to the vet *

Answer 3

Try putting him in a warm bath for a while, that will loosen the skin, and make it softer so it will come off better