Skin Tourniquet?

Tudatuda

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Aloha all,

My baby Jackson Cham (about 4-5 months old) shed for the first time a few weeks ago. I sprayed him like crazy while it was happening but some skin managed to hang on around his arms- a little like cuffs above the elbow. It has stayed like that for a while despite attempting to gently rub it off and even using the Zilla tropical mist on him/his enclosure. I mist him throughout the day a lot too but nothing is helping. He bats my fingers away when I try to rub it away and I don’t want to hurt him.

Now it looks like his arms are swelling below the “cuffs” and it’s worrying me that it might be acting as a tourniquet. Any advice would help.

I’ll probably take him into a vet either way on Monday but I would love to resolve it before then if possible.
 

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It’s definitely cutting off circulation and should be done now. If it doesn’t pull right off spray him and let it sit for a few mins and try again. He’s not going to like it so hold him down if you have to. If you get the skin off and the swelling dies down I don’t see a need for a vet visit but that’s up to you.
 
When I got my xanth he was a few weeks old and so tiny, 2g, he came to me with exactly the same thing and a bad one on his tail, if misting doesn’t work I used a very small artist’s watercolour brush, I know not everyone has one of these but if you can get something it’s worth it but maybe an eyeliner brush would work, it worked safely for him as it was soft and bendy but pointed so I dipped the brush in some zoomed ‘shed aid’ painted over the dried skin and left it for 15 mins or so, you might be able to paint it on him from a distance too whilst he is sitting on a branch, I have found that with a paintbrush they don’t seem to see it as if they are being touched and don’t move or bat your hand away as quickly, he may well like mine sit quite still, as to not stress him, then I very gently started working the tip of the brush under the tourniquet, I managed to work the brush right round the skin until it was free and it broke, only some of the time I had him sitting on my hand, other times I had him on a branch but you might find yours is not so compliant,
I managed to free all of my xanths skin, which was really hard and dried into his tail and he’s absolutely fine these days.
This is the day I got him and thought I would lose him, see the skin bitten into his tail, I thought the tail would die but it didn’t but it did leave a little blotch of dark colour on his tail even today.
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