| One day, I noticed that Bailey seemed to have a bit of bruising on the top of his nose. I wasn't positive how he got the bruise, but suspected, since he was having major breeding season aggression, that one of us had bopped him on the head a bit too hard. I apologized to Bailey and made a mental note to keep an eye on it. |
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Unfortunately, the "bruise" didn't get better, it got worse. Within just a few days, the dark splotch had deepened in color and started to spread. |
| At the time this was happening, we didn't have much money in the bank and couldn't afford a costly vet visit, so I started surfing the web and posting messages on the various iguana boards looking for some answers as to what this injury could be. I was very worried about Bailey as the rot seemed to be going deeper and he was losing scales/skin in that area. |
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And, naturally, the worry got worse when the rot started to appear on his chin as well. |
| Then Mary got the same thing on her nose and all thoughts of bruising went out the window. And if we couldn't afford to take one iggie to the vet, we certainly couldn't afford to take two! | 
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Mary used to have rostral horns, but her bout of nose rot (for lack of a better term) decayed her horns and eventually they all came off. |
| Luckily, we weren't without home treatment options. We still had some antibiotic cream left over from Bailey's tail amputation, so we started washing the wounds every day and then smearing the cream on. Bailey would always try to wipe his off right away, but Mary thought it made her look cute. ;-) |
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