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#371630
Tequlia77
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Uh Oh...Burns? 
I noticed today that My Iggy has some patches on his body that are darkened and the scales have become ruff and hard. I was just wondering if his light his burning him. Please get back to me as soon as you can. Thanks.
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06/14/05 08:04pm
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#371709
Tequlia77
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371630
Uh Oh...Burns?
PLEASE.....I am worried
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06/14/05 09:18pm
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#371727
Tequlia77
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371709
Uh Oh...Burns?
OK, now they are turning a bright orange. I have no idea what is going on. Is this his breeding colors coming? His arms are completely orange.
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06/14/05 09:32pm
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#371765
Reptigirl
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371727
Uh Oh...Burns?
Watch to see if they look like scabs. I know my one iggy turns orange a lot. It is usually when she is under her uva/uvb light for a long time basking. then turns almost black when catching rays outside to capture the most heat.
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06/14/05 10:06pm
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#371782
Tequlia77
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Message To: Reptigirl In reference to Message Id: 371765
Uh Oh...Burns?
Yeah, they just looked like dried up patches of skin that was black and rough. But now they have turned a bright orange and was just a little concerned. Thanks!
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06/14/05 10:29pm
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#371815
Stormy
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371782
Uh Oh...Burns?
I would need to see them to really give an opinion.. your description really confused me, lol.
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06/14/05 11:00pm
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#371872
LizardKing
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371782
Uh Oh...Burns?
hey tequila, one of my prehensile tailed skinks got a burn 5 years ago from a heat lamp before i got her. this is what the burn looks like. its yellow too, the same color she has under her mouth and chin and stuff. does it look anything like this? mind you, this burn is 5 years old.
see how its the same color?
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06/14/05 11:51pm
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#371992
TurtleBites
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Message To: LizardKing In reference to Message Id: 371872
Uh Oh...Burns?
my Iggy turns kinda orange i was told females do that when its breeding time....not sure if that’s true or not.
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06/15/05 01:43am
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#371999
Reptigirl
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371782
Uh Oh...Burns?
You can put neosporin ( I don’t know how o spell it LOL) on them to be safe. Then just keep your eye on them 
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06/15/05 01:53am
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#372107
Tequlia77
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Message To: Reptigirl In reference to Message Id: 371999
Uh Oh...Burns?
Well I think I have the solution...Well he is going into shed and the black parches have now turned gray ans the skin has become loose and started to peel. I guess it was just his skin peeling. But I could be wrong. In this picture, there is a 100 watt MVB and I put one of those cages around the light, he has not access to the bulb so I have no idea how he got burned.
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06/15/05 07:32am
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#372251
Ferndalezoo
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 372107
Uh Oh...Burns?
Julius came to us with two thermal burns on his face. What happened, we think, is he poked his nose through the bars of his cage and "bruised" that tissue. Then he got "sunburned" from his bulb. This is all speculation, mind you, but that’s what it looks like. They’re almost completely healed now, and the scars are pink. The vet had us put Thermazene on them until it healed completely.
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06/15/05 11:46am
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#372328
Iluviggy
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Message To: Ferndalezoo In reference to Message Id: 372251
Uh Oh...Burns?
the heat lamp is a little close. even if there’s a screen over the part where the bulb is, the fixture itself should be kept out of reach too because it also gets very very hot as well. take a good thermometer(not the stick on kind) and place it face up, lying down next to your igs basking area to see how hot it gets. i did this once and found out it was 105 degrees even though the thermometers on the cage wall near her were only reading 95! the orange you described is a sign of breeding season, usually for males but for some, not most, of females too. but the texture of the skin being rough and black sounds like a burn. if it’s shed, i don’t know that it would turn that dark before peeling. keep an eye on it for a week. if it starts to look better, then chances are your ig had a minor burn that coincided w/ his time to shed and it’s healing. if it starts to crust, scab, ooze or anything else like that then consult a herp vet. my ig got burned a few weeks ago, and she had this wierd looking patch of black skin by her head. it healed up now but took a very long time. i had the bulbs too close so i moved her shelves down a bit.
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06/15/05 12:57pm
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#372671
Xta
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 371630
Uh Oh...Burns?
Double check your temps to make sure they aren’t too hot to be on the safe side.
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06/15/05 07:01pm
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#375174
Tequlia77
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Message To: Xta In reference to Message Id: 372671
Uh Oh...Burns?
I lowered the wattage of the MVB. I love those bulbs, they seem to make their colors brighter and stand out. That’s just my opinion. But they are fine, I don’t think they are burns. They have turned blue now and his whole body is turning a deep orange.
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06/18/05 05:43pm
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#376760
Iluviggy
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 375174
Uh Oh...Burns?
does the mvb you have also give off heat? i thought that those only emitted UVB waves?
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06/20/05 05:03pm
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#377038
Tequlia77
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Message To: Iluviggy In reference to Message Id: 376760
Uh Oh...Burns?
Well its actually a ZooMed Halogen light. It emmitts 15% more heat and UVA and it has a life span of 3000 hours. A little different, but still great.
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06/20/05 09:55pm
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#377314
Herp_Haven
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Message To: Tequlia77 In reference to Message Id: 377038
Uh Oh...Burns?
The zoomed holgen light is not an MVB light. It doesn’t give off UVB rays.
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06/21/05 02:03am
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