Hi!
On october I took a rescue Uromastyx Ornata. I don't know his age, but he his a juvenile.
He was really skinny (57g and 8,7" ).

Now, he weigths 91g and he also took some colors! I'm really happy about that, but, I noticed today that there is about 2-3 layers of shed that is still stuck all over his tail...

So I give him a bath for 10 minutes and I gently pelled off scale by scale, a couple of row in his tail. It was really hard and took me about an hour to do 1/3 of the tail.

The problem is : The scales behind the old shed are really soft and sometimes there was a little bit of blood...So I stopped.

So, I would like to know what should I do with that? I leave the old skin there? or should I continue? Is there a better way to get rid of the old skin?

This is a picture when I got him:

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Lisabeth

1.2 Bearded dragons (Flake, Rusty and Rainbow)
1.2 Uromastyx geyri (Spiky, Salsa and Sangria)
2.4 Guinea pig (Pumpkin, Litchi, Moka, Lily, Soya, Noisette)

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