i did a horrible thing last night, joker my baby extreme giant who i got from bobby from the last hatch has just started waking up everyday and eating. he was chilling on his rock, and i was cleaning his water dish and his light fell on him!! he dropped 2/3 of his tail *cries* this cruushes me. i loved his tail, it was so beautiful!! makes me want to leave work right now and just go hold him i feel so damn guilty and shitty. this is horrible. he was just starting to wake up, had his first two sheds this week and really calm in the hand after an initial struggle.
so what do i do? i lined the inside of his tank with 4 layers of paper towels so he wouldnt get mulch or dirt on his tail, and cleaned the wound with Virosan (Nolvasan), but i didn't bandage it or anything nor did i cover it with neosporin cause i heard somewhere you need to let tail breaks breathe. but does anyone have any advice for me? this kills me. his tail was so pretty, snow white and coal black repeating pattern.
also, he didn't seem to care that his tail dropped. infact i'm pretty sure he ate a roach like 15 minutes later. can they feel pain in there tails? i sure felt pain. when i seen it flip out autonomusly as soon as the light dropped i knew it was bad, then like 3 seconds later it just fell off. i feel like he forgives me, or he didn't figure out it was my own stupidity that led to his injury. but i'm enraged at myself for being so careless.
also, being the tough badass he is, when he decided to go to sleep he completely ignored the beautiful steril paper towel cave i made him and just shredded a hole through the paper towels back into his mulch where he is sleeping now.
so did i do ok? at first i had stupid thoughts of using medical tape to reatach the tail but my common sense said if they're made to drop so easy like that they arn't going to reatach.
i lovingly wrapped his tail up tight and put it in the freezer, so i can show it to him when he's older.
god this whole thing is so damn depressing
so what do i do? i lined the inside of his tank with 4 layers of paper towels so he wouldnt get mulch or dirt on his tail, and cleaned the wound with Virosan (Nolvasan), but i didn't bandage it or anything nor did i cover it with neosporin cause i heard somewhere you need to let tail breaks breathe. but does anyone have any advice for me? this kills me. his tail was so pretty, snow white and coal black repeating pattern.
also, he didn't seem to care that his tail dropped. infact i'm pretty sure he ate a roach like 15 minutes later. can they feel pain in there tails? i sure felt pain. when i seen it flip out autonomusly as soon as the light dropped i knew it was bad, then like 3 seconds later it just fell off. i feel like he forgives me, or he didn't figure out it was my own stupidity that led to his injury. but i'm enraged at myself for being so careless.
also, being the tough badass he is, when he decided to go to sleep he completely ignored the beautiful steril paper towel cave i made him and just shredded a hole through the paper towels back into his mulch where he is sleeping now.
so did i do ok? at first i had stupid thoughts of using medical tape to reatach the tail but my common sense said if they're made to drop so easy like that they arn't going to reatach.
i lovingly wrapped his tail up tight and put it in the freezer, so i can show it to him when he's older.
god this whole thing is so damn depressing
Thats what I'm always worried about. I rememebr when i was around 7 I tried to tape a lizards tail back on. thought it might had been like grafting a plant. Didn't work to well for me :roll:
