shedding/wound issue

[SnakeCharmr728]

Cleo ( my female tegu) has horrible skin problems even with the correct humidity and cod liver oil in her food, and she NEVER sheds, she has like 3-4 stuck sheds on her, and it wont peel, not even with plenty of warm soaks. I think its caused because she doesn't know how to drink out of the tub, so she only drinks what she can when I sit there for 10mins with the spray bottle in her face (she'll also lap it off the walls of her cage and basking rock) This is something I've been battling for months, shes just a weird one. BUT now her armpits are now cracked, and raw, and bleeding. Shes in obvious pain, doesn't want to move and is stiff. I've sprayed Silver (Patis 30 fortified silver solution) on to the open areas and then rubbed in silverdine cream, switching her over to newspapers for sanitary reasons tonight.


Background info:
female 2yr old black and white, basking spot of 100-110, cool side of 75-80, humidity is about 60% and shoots up when I mist her everyday, and good UVB. Shes kept in a 6Lx2Dx3T wood cage with 3-4inches of Douglas fir bark. I soak her in a warm bath for about 30mins, every 2 days or so. Sometimes longer, she gets f/t mice/rats/quail/chicks, chicken gizzards, hearts liver, beef heart and liver, ground turkey and chicken, hardboiled egg, strawberries, blueberries, kiwi, mango, apple, melons, banana, etc and shes a black and white and with her meals she gets cod liver oil and calcium. Exact same diet and husbandry as my male, though kept separate and hes given me no issues what so ever.

Anyone else have any suggestions?!!?!

I'm doing everything a vet would do about her open wounds but I'm not sure how to fix the shedding/stuck shed problem!!!!

Also, Should I switch over to the Novasone cream rather than silverdine?

 

[crimsonrazac]

I didn't have time to read the whole post, have to go now! Have you tried adding a source of moving water that might catch her interest? a dipper, a pump, some type of fake river type thing? not sure if it would help with the drinking or sheds but I thought it may be worth a try.

 

[themedic]

Get a bowl big enough for her to sit in, and put a air stone in there, connect it to a clear hose, run the hose to an air pump, a small one will do like a 10g or 20g air pump.

It will make noise and make bubbles and intrigue your tegu to drink and bathe in their, i do it to all my lizards it really grabs there attention.

Hope this helps, also increase humidity bring it to 80-100% for a couple of weeks. down here in texas relative humidity is never below 50% so you could say spraying my tegus cage is not nessacary.

 

[Dom3rd]

I like the air stone idea i might have to try that