hey all. if anyone has any idea as to what could be causing this or what i can do to treat it let me know.
i purchased a juvenile doreanus about 3 months ago and overall he's doing well... eating great, basks for a good portion of the day and buries himself at night. he soaks himself every now and then too. all in all a healthy little bugger. however, i noticed the other day that while he was eating a thawed hopper that he had puss nodes in his mouth (kinda embedded in the groves of his mouth where his teeth are). I can poke at them with a q-tip to remove them, but they seem to be coming back in greater numbers. if you know what a tonsil stone looks like, it's exactly what these things in his mouth looks like. a little off-white colored ball of hard puss substance. he doesn't seem to be bothered by them and eats his food with no problem. however, when he eats and they fall out or if i remove them there is some bleeding from the site. i don't know what to make of it. also, a couple of weeks ago he could not open his eye for some reason, and i noticed something grayish sticking out of his eye so i pulled it out... it was a thin piece of cypress mulch with a gray membrane grown around it (almost as if to protect his eye from the rough bark surface). i removed it, his eye opened back up, and he was happy. i have never had a problem like this with cypress before, could it be that the same thing is happening inside the mouth of my monitor? maybe he still needs to learn to close his eyes and mouth when he buries in the substrate... i dunno. anyway any and all help would be greatly appreciated.
-Adam
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doreanus...mouth...puss?
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Again see a vet.
What your describing sounds like a mouth infection, could be mouth rot, or an R.I. seeing how his eye was shut. I know you said mulch was stuck in it, but was the mulch the start or the end result? With RI they can have runny discharge from mouth, nose, and eyes. This fluid will make the area sticky leading to the mulch getting stuck to him.
Your best bet is to see a vet and have him hecked over.
As for cause of the problem husbandry, cage setup, temps.. If it's cold in your area he probly can feel it.
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