Hi Frank,

Thanks very much for that.

I never did see it again, only once w/ the baby tortoise. And come to think, Mike did try to push it back in. Ironically, the smoothness and lubrication of the neosporin helped him do that. So maybe that's all it was good for. I want to say we cleaned the area too.. but I don't remember well enough.

I find it very interesting to learn that varanids do not process the petroleum antibiotics. I love to learn information like that.

Many many years ago we had an older baby bearded dragon that had an arm injury. Unfortunately, one of its cagemates bit its arm. It seems baby bearded dragons get a bad rep for this.. but if we were to have applied the same husbandry we've learned- I'm not sure we would have seen that so much. The interesting thing is- his arm looked pretty bad.. Up to a certain point it was dying: it turned hard and black. This all happened rather quickly. I started applying neosporin just for the try and was amazed. His arm regenerated itself. It literally went from hard and black to normal regular skin.


Thanks again ,

Mary

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