bloody gums

[markb]

HI All,

Have any of you Varanid keepers seen bloody gums in your animals? Ive seen it in V. jobiensis, V. niloticus, V. komodoensis, V. salvadorii and V. indicus. It does not seem to happen all the time, during handling, feeding, times of stress?
The culprit for this in V. niloticus seems to be Sambonia lohrmann, a penstatome worm that is known to V. exanthematicus too, but obviously in the Indonesia, another organism/culprit is the cause??
Thanx