Hi, first post here.

I have seen a couple of cases of skin problems that look like each other. First my own big female which I lost to it, she had to be put down, vet couldn't save her. And now a girlfriend's big male, he is going to be put down very soon. I have a smaller female now, she has some small areas with defective scales, and I think it's an early state of the same disease.

The problem is that the scales in some areas gets kind of crippled. It spreads slowly so the areas become bigger. Later, sores develop and bumps form and shedding fails to come off at these areas. It spreads into the eyes too, so they get very unclear and crippled, but apparently only on the surface. I have a picture here of my old female a short time before she was put down. The bump on the upper lip came quite late in the development of the disease.

http://home19.inet.tele.dk/ulsm/Zara/Sygdom/small/small4064.jpg

Is some of this familiar to anyone here? I have been through quite a few vet vists (two best reptile vets here) and lab examinations of skin samples and so on. They never found anything useful.

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Ulrik Smed
Aarhus, Denmark

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