Thank you Carlton. As the herptologist pointed out, the skin necrosis is related to a digestive or metabolic issue. I have high hopes that eliminating some of her parasites will help. The medication was adminstered by the herptologist, i'm assuming that she knows her stuff. It was very difficult for me to find a reptologist or herptologist, i'm lucky there is one in my closest city four hours away. I feel very stupid for not realizing that she needed to be checked for parasites. I knew reptiles were notorious for harboring parasites, learned that in high school. I should have realized that they would need to be checked. :O

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• Black Skin.....Update - adnerb, Wed Jul 27 00:53:35 2005
• RE: Black Skin.....Update - Carlton, Wed Jul 27 11:34:03 2005
• RE: Black Skin.....Update - adnerb, Wed Jul 27 11:53:59 2005
• Don't feel bad about that. - anson, Thu Jul 28 00:14:04 2005
• parasite story... - eric adrignola, Thu Jul 28 19:00:02 2005