water dragon lip

[Lrptls]

i have a chinese water dragon. i went away for a few days and when i came back my dragons lip lookd kinda bad. its just the very front of it. its very bairly open, but open enough you can see his 2 top fang like teeth. i really can't guess what happend to it. hes in a plexi glass cage with a screen door and screen top but i'v never seen him rub on the screen or run into the plexi glass. i believe i have some antibitoics left from a basilisk i had about 2 years ago. he needed it because i had him in a screen have and he rubd his nose open and even though i imidiatley put him in a mesh cage his nose got badly infected but the meds worked like magic. you think i can use the same meds on him and see if it does any thing? thanks

[Siretsap]

disinfect it with some original lysterin,
and put some anti-bacterial polysporin

[NewLineReptile]

They will rub their nose on the tank for many of reasons you could put anti-bacterial polysporin on like Siretsap said.

What size is the enclosure you have him in alot of it could be that he is not in the proper enclosure

Brandon

[Lrptls]

the cage is 24 inches long, 42 inches high and 15 inches wide, he is about 6 inches snout to vent.

[NewLineReptile]

Do you know if it is CB or WC I ask because i had them before and i had one WC that no matter what i did he would always rub his face but the CB one never did. I dont know to much about them but what i did is gave them the biggest enclosure i could and lots of things to climb on and hide in and it worked well.

The taller the enclosure the better always make sure to have lots of things for him to climb And some fake plants seem to help

Good luck sorry i could not be more of a help

Brandon

[Lrptls]

i really dont know if hes cb or wc, i got him 3 years ago at petsmart as a little baby and he was rather calm and ate good so i'm thinking cb. i plan on geting a big mesh cage for him soon once i get the money. theres a few big long peices of drift wood in the cage that allows him to climb from the bottum to almost the very top of the cage. and a peice thats horizontal near the top for basking and such. he has 3 plants in the cage too which he leaves alone except the one, he sits in the pot. i will be digging around in all my meds to find him something if i can't i will buy it.

[Lrptls]

ok this is what i found...
the cream i used on the basilisk is called Vetropolycin, it sais bacterial-heomycin-polymyxin
veterinary ophthaimic ointment

and the other cream is one i pickd up at cvs, some one recomended i got it for my boa when the scab on her head kept coming off and suff it sais
maximum strength antibiotic +pain relief first aid cream
neomycin, polymyxin b, pramoxine hci

[V.hb]

You have to be very careful using any ointments on the mouth, its not good for the lizard to swallow, and being on the lip it can happen.
Sounds like a bit of mouth rot. Dilute some hydrogen peroxide and flush the front of the mouth, and then dilute some betadine, and flush as well. Clears up minor problems very fast.

[Lrptls]

heres a bad pic of him i took today but it sorta shows just how slightly open it is

[Bartman]

Something that sounds slightly like that happened to my old tegu. Basically its usually from low calcium sups. I know that was the problem with mine, it had a week jaw and made it kinda flimsy. Thats what id think it is that is making his mouth open up slightly

[Lrptls]

i kinda dont think its a weak jaw, i'm not saying it can't be, but i thought he was quite strong. i hold his fuzzies up with tongs and hes actually ripped them in half in a split second off the tongs. its quite discusting but i will put more vitamins on his food

[V.hb]

It really doesnt look that bad, just use betadine like i mentioned above.. Dont go overboard with vitamins, he doesnt look like hes MBD +.. DO you use any uvb.uva lighting?

[Lrptls]

yes, hes always had uvb, the bulb does need to be replaced around the end of next month, because it will be 6 months sence i got it.

[gfisher2002]

At work we had a water dragon that kept injuring his mouth on the tank. After the slow results of typical ointments we tried something new. We used a steroid ointment (the kind perscribed for exeima (Sp?) and rashes) It cleared up his mouth rot and injuries in 4 days!! The redness was gone the next day. The second day he looked way better. And the third day it was hard to tell he had an injury. And the fourth day he was completely recovered. It's been 2 months now and he's doing fine. Don't remember what the actual name of the drug was.