Help identify! rotted skin around mouth?

[LEO037]

Please help identify what is the blackened skin around its mouth. Is it rotted skin? How to treat it?
Currently eating well 5 times a week, humidity 50-70, temperature 80-90, soak everyday.
Thanks

 

[JoesMum]

I very much doubt it's anything to worry about at all. Black mouth is almost always caused by diet - eating something that has stained it. Frequently the tort has been eating poop... It sounds disgusting, but some torts really have a taste for it.

 

[LEO037]

I very much doubt it's anything to worry about at all. Black mouth is almost always caused by diet - eating something that has stained it. Frequently the tort has been eating poop... It sounds disgusting, but some torts really have a taste for it.

That's also what I first thought. But the jaw is different from what my other tortoises look like. I will take more photos.

 

[Yvonne G]

Before you take more pictures, gently brush the area with a wet toothbrush to clean it all off so we can see what you see.

 

[LEO037]

Before you take more pictures, gently brush the area with a wet toothbrush to clean it all off so we can see what you see.

Please see the new photos. So hard to take pictures for it...

 

[Yvonne G]

When your pictures show up in your post as little thumbnails with writing on them, it means they are very, very large. It takes a long time for us to load them, and then they're way bigger than our screens. I've made the first picture smaller pixel-wise:



Your picture was 4,000x6,000 and I changed it to 1024x768. It then shows up as a picture thumbnail, and I click "full image."

 

[Yvonne G]

I still don't see anything wrong with that beak. My best advice is, if you're worried there really is something wrong, take the tortoise to a qualified vet so they can see it in real life.

On closer inspection, the dark part does look a bit more sunken than the lighter part. You may be onto something. But I just can't tell from a picture.

 

[LEO037]

I still don't see anything wrong with that beak. My best advice is, if you're worried there really is something wrong, take the tortoise to a qualified vet so they can see it in real life.

On closer inspection, the dark part does look a bit more sunken than the lighter part. You may be onto something. But I just can't tell from a picture.

Thanks, I will monitor the lower jaw for another few days, if it gets worse I will go to a vet.