I just got my BP on Friday and today I noticed she had some aspen stuck to the bottom of her neck, I haven't handled him since I got him. Thinking that was very strange i picked her up and gently removed the aspen, this only exposed something worse.







I quickly placed her in a tub and removed all the aspen in the cage, thinking a piece must of been sharp or there was a very sharp piece on one of her logs. I replaced the aspen with newspaper and put her back in the tank.

I then noticed a piece of gorilla tape that I used inside the tank to affix the wire from the probes up on the side of the tank. The piece in the upper corner came off a little bit, without thinking i pressed it back down. A couple minutes later I thought maybe she got stuck on it and went to look at that piece of tape, and sure enough it looks like that is what happened while she was exploring sometime last night.



Humidity: 60%
Hot side: 90.5 (one spot of 91.2)
Cool Side: 80-82
Ambient Temp: 81

I waited a week and a half extra before purchasing the snake to make sure she had perfect conditions and seemed to have slipped up with using tape inside the enclosure. I have removed all pieces of tape within the enclosure as well.

She appears to be fine from the whole ordeal after removing the pieces of aspen stuck to her and was exploring the cage after I put her back in it. She is now in the warm side hide. I'm still concerned with the exposed flesh and would like to assist her the best way possible that I can before I can take her to the vet. Is there anything that I can put on the wound to prevent infection/aid in healing?

The above pictures were taken with a nikon d80 and macro lens so the wound appears much larger than it actually is, although I still feel incredibly bad it even occurred. The little piece of string was from the bag she came in that had frayed edges in it, that is no longer on her as well.

Thanks in advance for the assistance!