amphipod Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 So I keep brown anole lizards, and I don't want to make an account with a new forum site. Anyways my males are dying it starts as a discolored spot or abscess on the genatalia then it becomes gangrene and kills them any ideas what it could be? Link to comment
CosmicCanine Posted November 23, 2014 Share Posted November 23, 2014 Unfortunately, reptile abscesses need treatment by a vet. When they have a wound that abscesses the material inside the abscess is not liquid but turns into a solid, unlike mammals who's abscesses remain liquid most times. It needs treatment with a local or general anaesthetic.. a small scalpel, and someone who knows how to do sutures because it'll need 2 or 3 after the abscess is expressed... the material under the skin will be sort of like... what happens inside a bad reptile egg.. it'll be soft but like bad, dried out cottage cheese... and slightly harder.. the pocket left behind needs to be flushed with either a saline solution or a disinfectant solution and either sutured closed with a small drainage area to allow the infection escape or just left open to the air and some silvadene creme set into the pocket to keep it moist and prevent any other microbes or bacteria from invading... Not sure of the cause, but thats the treatment.... Link to comment
amphipod Posted November 23, 2014 Author Share Posted November 23, 2014 I've already done the surgery, which was like cutting a huge pimple out of them(it was gross) and sterilized the wound with isopropyl alcohol with 2 lizards but they end up wasting and developing wet gangrene, I've tried tetracycline on them orally but it doesn't affect it apparently, at least not the wasting which kills them every time but I'm suspicious of why it only affects males I have only one male left now, also I keep other lizard species which are apparently unaffected by the gruesome disease Link to comment
NorthGaHillbilly Posted November 24, 2014 Share Posted November 24, 2014 Are all the anoles housed in the same enclosure? Perhaps one of your females is a carrier for some nasty reptilian venereal disease, from my observation of anoles in and around my garden they can be rather unladylike, spreading their vent for anything that'll fit. Link to comment
amphipod Posted November 24, 2014 Author Share Posted November 24, 2014 That could be, but why after 2 years of living together in the tank, I actually caught all my browns from a trail or park in tarpon springs florida, one large head anole and 6 brown anole they could all interbreed so I'd like to think the large head anole is simply a variant of the brown anole, of those 7 I have only 2 left a male and female brown anole the others all died, the other females did die but from an egg complication and a respiratory infection then I started tetracycline as the respiratory infection cure which worked very well. I also have 3 green anoles and 3 long tailed grass lizards and one house geko. So back to point couldn't such a disease lie dormant for 2 years? Link to comment
amphipod Posted November 26, 2014 Author Share Posted November 26, 2014 Could a reptilian std lie dormant for 2 years? Link to comment
amphipod Posted December 7, 2014 Author Share Posted December 7, 2014 Oh well, the last male is dead now, and the killer wasn't even the gangrene, just a respiratory infection that came quick. Link to comment
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