Nose owwie

[lraulston]

Quick question, I have a young White's, around 2 inches who has 2 tiny little red dots on his nose. Very small, not quite the size of his nostril. Don't believe it is nose rub, but he is moving up tank size soon anyways. I have a feeling he jumped into something while trying to eat. He really loves to eat. The red places don't look open, but are a tiny bit bigger from the other day. I take him out to feed and inspect him on a pretty regular basis and just noticed his nose maybe 3 days ago. He does feed on a plastic tray and occasionally in his enclosure, so I guess he still could have bumped his nose? But before I did anything I wanted to know if this would heal on its own? I am afraid to put neosporin so close to his little nostrils. Input welcome. He is very active, eating like a horse, temps 80-85 day and 75 or so at night, humitidy 50-70% right now. Will be moving him to new apartment in next week or so and wanted to see if I need to take any action on his nose or wait and see how he heals. Thabks and God bless.

[lraulston]

oh, and substrate is still paper towels.

[Dog Shrink]

Any chance he got bit by a feeder on it's way down the gullet?

[lraulston]

Hmm, yes. Yes that is a distinct possibility.

[Dog Shrink]

I see it all the time with Leopard geckos. Usually keeping the nose area clean and setting up a sort of hospital environment helps with the clean problem. Certainly don't want substrait and stuff getting on that booboo. Maybe you can contact your vet to see if there is an antiseptic wash you can use to qtip on the lil nose until this clears up.