Mangrove health issues -.-

[Sylvias]

So... I had to pull the mangrove out the other day to get some stuck shed off and I noticed his somewhat advanced case of Respiratory Infection He has no audible breathing but he has quite an excess of mucus and breaths bubbles under stress.... I guess that is one rather annoying disadvantage of hots, handling them less makes problems like that less likely to be discovered... Just looking at him in his cage, I would never have known.
In addition to the RI he has a slight case of stomatis, likely a secondary infection brought on by the mouth rot.
I do not think this is a recent problem that developed over night or anything, it seems to me like something that has been in the works for a while, possibly even before I got him, although at this point in time (until I talk with the previous owner) I think it may have started during shipping when he was cooled rather significantly if only for a night...

So as to what I am doing about this.
I have him in a quarantine sterelite tub, minimalistic set up. He has a UTH, news paper, and a hide. He gets access to water at night (when he is awake to get to it) from a tiny little water bowl to keep as little humidity as possible.

I scrubbed his mouth clean with a qtip dipped in chlorhexidine to remove the little bits of white crap (yes thats the scientific term) and fight the bacteria in there. I will probably repeat this in a few days...

And now.... we wait...

[Marvel69]

So how he doing?

[Sylvias]

will update tonight... doing another mouth treatment here shortly,aside from making sure his temps are constant and giving him access to water for a few hours every day i have not messed with him

[Sylvias]

mangrove seems to be doing well...less mucusy... still fairly fiesty but not quite what i would expect from a restrained mangrove so not sure if thats something to worry about or if he just realizes it's not worth the fight

[Donnie_K]

Nothing's gotten any worse, and less mucus sounds like progress to me. Stay on it, it may take awhile, but you'll get him there. Temps up, humidity down, stress free.

[Sylvias]

yeah. next issue is the two little bumps  on his back.... not water blisters...he has been dried out long enough for that to go away and these two little bumps are still there... spaced randomly i guess along his back. their both roughly 5mm in diameter, fairly firm but not hard. Hoping they are just abscesses or something easy to deal with but I know with mystery lumps it could be anything from parasites to cancer... so that's probably going to need a vet visit... I emailed my vet last night to see what taking him in for a biopsy would cost.... but of course i need to get heat in my car first...

[smilts]

You should take him in to a vet as soon as possible for those bumps, really.  My male burm had a small bump I didnt next thing i know its a large bump and he has a bone infection that killed him.  my female burm never got bumps.  but sheh ad the same infection and died last week.  I never knew she had it untill after she died and I had her examined.  both of them seemed fine.  were eating doing well and then were just dead.

[Donnie_K]

Ouch