I am happy to have found this forum and appreciate all the helpful info. I would appreciate some help. We purchased a Mali Uromastyx for our ten year old three weeks ago from a pet store. She is about 7" long and we were told she was ten months old.

We have been feeding her spring mix lettuce rinsed with water and dusted with calcium powder, bok choy, carrots, peas, millet, ground lentils, sweet potatoes and occasionally grapes and apples. We are in a small community in Alberta, Canada and can't get organic here but we wash well. We fed her three small worms yesterday as we were worried about her eating habits.

Her vivarium is 4 feet long 20" deep and 2 feet wide and we made it from plexiglass. We have a exoterra solar glo heat lamp and another heat lamp as well as we couldn't get it hot enough for her with just one. We use reptisun bulbs for light. Her hot side is 120 and her cold side is 82 during the day. We used play sand as a substrate.

When we bought her she was on crushed walnut, she was being bathed weekly and she was given vegetables daily and worms weekly. When we got her we noticed that the tip of her tail looked like dried up wood and seemed to be drying up and rotting and it seems to have gotten a bit worse since then. I am wondering if this is tail rot and if so, what to do? She does eat some of what we offer every day but I am wondering how much she should be eating as her skin is looser and she has more wrinkles than when we got her a few weeks ago. Her face has started to shed in the past couple of days.

She has a vet visit scheduled for January 3rd but as we are in a small community we can't get in earlier and have to drive an hour to get to a reptile vet. Any advice on how to keep her comfortable during transport?

I have attached some pictures of Ally the Mali. Thanks for your help.

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