Urgent Care :: Shell soft and exposed bone

[guigui]

Hello!

Looking to see if anyone has any ideas what’s going on with my RES. I was examining him today and noticed he had a bit of exposed bone and there’s a part that looks like it’s just slightly softer than the rest of the shell and it’s mostly in the joint area (I circled it in the photo). I immediately started dry docking him and applied silver sulfadiazine in case it was shell rot


Any idea what’s going on and how to treat him??

[steve]

Hard to know whats going on, but if there are other on-going issues, it might complicate treatment. Usually a bony layer can scar over, but thats in certain conditions. It's best to seek treatment under an experienced herp vet.