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We've taken a look at an adoption that we'll be (most likely) taking home in march- a 3-year-old male who's not handled much - and he has a few disconcerting patches on him. His owners say they are 'left over from stuck shed'.
He doesn't have anything on his abdomen, just a few black patches on his back, one thigh, and under/on his epaulet. They aren't raised at all, they do just look like blackened/dead scales. I'm inclined to agree with them that it is from shed damage, as it looks like he has remnants from past sheds still on some of his side scales and epaulets and on one toe.
Or could this be something worse? Yellow fungus, scale rot, melanoma?
We will definitely be taking him to the vet once we acquire him next month, but wanting to get some preemptive knowledge!
He doesn't have anything on his abdomen, just a few black patches on his back, one thigh, and under/on his epaulet. They aren't raised at all, they do just look like blackened/dead scales. I'm inclined to agree with them that it is from shed damage, as it looks like he has remnants from past sheds still on some of his side scales and epaulets and on one toe.
Or could this be something worse? Yellow fungus, scale rot, melanoma?
We will definitely be taking him to the vet once we acquire him next month, but wanting to get some preemptive knowledge!
