Salt around Scales - Does anyone know what causes it?

[Lea]

If they live in coastal areas like the rotti's, it would make sense, how many species live by the sea naturally in Auss?I'm guessing nearly all but the centralians and alpines, I've seen Lea's get to go to the beach but do many live in the dunes or what ever as the norm?

I've seen shinglebacks, easterns & lowland blotchies in coastal dunes & heathland. I've seen easterns & lowland blotchies on the beach too.

Ok, this calls for a WINKLE picture at the beach!



Popsicle ...




Some wild beach-dwelling shinglebacks in South Australia ...





.. and one in the sand dunes, at Cottesloe Beach, near Perth, WA ...

[susi-lou]

wow cool - thanks - those are great shots!

[Shadowfax]

Wow, I'm not sure whether to be impressed or alarmed that you actually TASTED an unknown substance that came out of your blueys nose!!!!

[gloom_kitty]

not a bts i know but my uromastyx expells unwanted salt via its nose...

hi by the way

[Tattoo]

Glad to see someone finally got to the salt being expelled thru the nose part of the story. I heard somewhere they sneeze to expel the accumulated matter in the salt gland. I think it was in that link Blotch posted with the guy talking about a snout to tail check up of your bts and what to look for.

A big welcome to Susi-lou 1000 points for licking your blueys excrement. What a woman!

[Leigh]

Thaaaanks Lea, not the normal winkle people over hear would expect to find at the beach hee hee, I'd be over the moon to find yours,or any kinda BTS when down on the sand. Also I've had a face full of Iguana snotsalt more than once in the past,such a dirty girl she was,and I'm sure she thought it was funny.

[Tattoo]

[Kymbadina]

What do you feed ,could be excess from that, not sure they produce salt like our sweat, wait for the experts they may have a reason . OH welcome and as always....... where's the pics, posts a million photos then they'll be analysed,hee hee

I agree, Our Mali Uro. Got crusty looking white around her nose, We had her takent the herp vet to be sure she wasnt sick, It was salt. I don't know if blues do the same thing but it sounds like that might be it

[Marie]

Thanks Zoe,

I ended up taking Mork to be Vet and he thought he had an infection and suggested it was conjunctivitis. This then resulted in 10 days of antibiotics (injecting into those tiny legs was horribly traumatic for me and mork.) The result was: no change.

It has ebbed and flowed over time. So i guess you are right and i need to check the salt levels in his food.

Talk about a revived thread!

Okay, I'm an eye scientist, so forgive me for this rant. It's a personal pet peeve of mine when vets prescribe iv drugs for an eye infection. Antibiotics can be hard on organs. Why expose the rest of the system to a drug that only needs to be administered to the eye? Most importantly, if it's conjunctivitis, a systemic treatment will not reach the conjunctiva, thereby making the systemic med completely useless.

[Brigget]

I agree I have 2 uros and they produce salt out their nose and I think I read that blueys can do it too although I have never seen it.

[SailleSkinklover]

Marie, Thank you! It drives me crazy how both vets and doctors will over-prescribe antibiotics for the possibility of something they don't even know for sure is there!

The salt glands make sense to me. And Lea, that Winkle and other Stumpies on the beach are sooooooooooo Cuuuuute!

I Love Sand-turds. . . .