Ok, I didn't recieve any comments or anything when I posted this before, so I'll post again on a new thread. My ball python Tsume shed the other day. It seems to have taken some of the skin around his wound with it leaving a bigger open area. Is this normal? Also, around all the little bite marks that he has on his back is now all white. Everything (his wounds) looked a little reddish when he first shed, it's faded to a pinkish color now.

I was just wondering if this is all normal? He rejected his food last night so that's no fun but I'm not going to worry too much about that quite yet. I put up some pictures of his wound before and after, they aren't great pictures. The white (white because of ointment) areas are the wound size before he shed and the pink/red areas are after. The first picture is before he shed and the other two are after.

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow boa (Sakura)
1.1.0 Leopard geckos (Tasuki, Sango)
2.0.0 Ball pythons (Tsume, Kenshin)

im sorry ive never had a problem like this but I hope tsume gets better soon

Hello,

From the pictures, it actually looks like the wound is healing. Now that your BP is wounded, it will shed more frequently as part of the healing process. I would just keep applying the ointment and give it time.

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Josh Shrader

1.0 Ball Python (Monty)
0.1 Red-Eared Slider (Woody)
0.1 Yellow-Bellied Slider (Buz)

I'm not quite sure how often he would shed if he wasn't injured, this is how I got him But it does look like he needed to lose some of the dead skin around the wound to promote healing. I'm not as worried as I was a couple days ago when he first shed.

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow boa (Sakura)
1.1.0 Leopard geckos (Tasuki, Sango)
2.0.0 Ball pythons (Tsume, Kenshin)

The little bite marks turning white is probably normal. My last rescued ig had white scar tissue all over the place, his scars were from burns and cat scratches. the vet said it was normal, but then again the vet also told me to feed him more mice to help fatten him up.

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Hello,

I am pretty sure everything is fine. Just keep applying the medicine as you have been.

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Josh Shrader

1.0 Ball Python (Monty)
0.1 Red-Eared Slider (Woody)
0.1 Yellow-Bellied Slider (Buz)

Bite marks?, do you feed live food?.

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Jason

Hello,

Im not sure if the snake gets fed live but that is the way he came to them.

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Josh Shrader

1.0 Ball Python (Monty)
0.1 Red-Eared Slider (Woody)
0.1 Yellow-Bellied Slider (Buz)

I'm just about positive she doesnt feed live food, she took him in as a rescue because he was all chewed up.

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I would never feed live food. Not even pinkies unless it was an absolute emergency. No, this guy was fed live food by his previous owners. I did get him to eat a F/T mouse though about a week after we got him which was great. I have been trying to get him to eat again, but he seems a little scared of F/T mice and probably mice in general. I would try fresh kill if I was 100% sure that they wouldn't give him parasites.

He does seem to be doing ok by the way, I think that the redness was due to the fact that he just shed a few minutes before I checked him and he was sore. But now it's just light pink and things seem to be alright. He's still a little tender but that's to be expected.

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0.1.0 Brazilian Rainbow boa (Sakura)
1.1.0 Leopard geckos (Tasuki, Sango)
2.0.0 Ball pythons (Tsume, Kenshin)