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Is something wrong with my snake's skin?

This is what our member has to say: Ok my ball python shed a couple days ago and I just noticed a few white scales on its back. It does NOT seem to ...


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05-07-2006, 11:27 AM
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Is something wrong with my snake's skin?

Ok my ball python shed a couple days ago and I just noticed a few white scales on its back. It does NOT seem to be skin that can be removed. It also is NOT filled with liquid as I have read about blister disease. It doesn't look like the pics of scale rot whicH I have searched for on the net, but I may be wrong. Is something wrong with the snake?

Here are 2 pics of the same area.




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Looks like they could be scars maybe from a bad shed. Was your bp ever fed live rodents,,could be healed bites also.
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That's what they said at redtail boa too, but they are not mice bites, because I feed pre-killed. I fed once live a couple weeks ago but I was present 100% of the time and they were pinkies and no bites. And these marks did not appear until right after the shed a couple days ago.

Since it is right after the shed that they appeared, I would think it is a bad shed. What can I do about that? At first I thought it was a good shed as it seemed to come off smoothly all in one piece but these marks I thought were bits of skin but they seem not to be loose skin just the color is white there.

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Looks like it may have been some damage while the new skin was forming. I wouldn't worry about it unless the spots grow larger or spread.
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I agree with Merlin, it dosnt seem like you need to worry unless it spreads

 


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