KayTee = Calcium?

[KayleighBrown]

I spoke to someone on the phone today who suggest feeding pinkies with a syringe, some sort of Kaytee product to help the snakes get calcium?

Anyone know what she's talking about?

[Physician&Snakes]

I spoke to someone on the phone today who suggest feeding pinkies with a syringe, some sort of Kaytee product to help the snakes get calcium?

Anyone know what she's talking about?

A pinkie is already born with a functioning skeletal system with more than enough Ca for a healthy specimen.

[Naom9Anne]

I've not heard of calcium being added to snakes rodents before. I thought that was predominantly a lizard thing personally.

[satomi325]

No additional supplements are necessary.
Snakes get all their essential nutrition from whole prey. Whole prey(rodents) is already a balanced diet.

[KayleighBrown]

Thank you guys. She suggested it because I told her about his thin form.

Now Kaa's scales seem to be sticking out, and his bottom scales are kind of doing it too, getting a little brown at the very edge of some of them, very few.

Does this mean he will shed soon? or is this a sign of some scale rot going on?

He had shed some time before I brought him home, which was on Halloween and he had an incomplete shed going on during that time.

[Physician&Snakes]

Thank you guys. She suggested it because I told her about his thin form.

Now Kaa's scales seem to be sticking out, and his bottom scales are kind of doing it too, getting a little brown at the very edge of some of them, very few.

Does this mean he will shed soon? or is this a sign of some scale rot going on?

He had shed some time before I brought him home, which was on Halloween and he had an incomplete shed going on during that time.

That sounds a bit vague...can you post a pic?

[KayleighBrown]

That sounds a bit vague...can you post a pic?

They are a bit hard to see, sorry, taken with my phone.

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

[Physician&Snakes]

They are a bit hard to see, sorry, taken with my phone.

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

I was wondering if you had tried to undress again, lol. I do not see anything critical, maybe just some bad scales that need to come off next shed, just keep the cage environment well.

[KayleighBrown]

I was wondering if you had tried to undress again, lol. I do not see anything critical, maybe just some bad scales that need to come off next shed, just keep the cage environment well.

By well, do you mean dry? I touched up his tank today and moistened his bark bedding as well and laid out some moist moss to give him some humidity. Should I take all that stuff out or will he be ok with moisture?

[satomi325]

It looks like very minor minor scale rot. Nothing to worry about. It will go away in the next shed.