Missing Scale/Beat Up Scales After Shed

[shadowsspy]

So i just noticed my bp male looks to have damaged himself there are some scales on his back looking beat up and right in the middle of it 1 scale is pink like he rubbed off the top of it but it doesnt bother him for me to touch it he just finished a shed 3 days ago stayed in the first night but came out the 2nd night except it was dark then but i had to light on this time and noticed it is there anything i can do to prevent this happening in the future.
I can post some pics that show it better than i describe it tommorrow and would this warrant a vet visit? cause if so it would have to wait a week or so because we have some extreme cold temps for the rest of this week and im not taking a snake out in -30 celcius

[MD_Pythons]

Sounds like he had a bad shed, what humidity was his enclosure at? That can happen when it's too low.

[shadowsspy]

Im not too sure what the humidity was but I was in there every day misting the cage/him every other day except for a few days I missed and he shedded clean nothing stuck but its seems like he rubbed himself too good in that spot

[tttaylorrr]

does the pink bit look something like this?


pictures would help us help you better. what you described sort of sounds like what i went through in my post linked above. it just kind of happened, as his humidity was decent (not the best but never dropping below 60%) and i had never had a bad shed with him before.

[shadowsspy]

Not sure it doesn't look quite like that but here are the pics

[oodaT]

Do you feed live?

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[SDA]

That looks more like an old burn scar or bite than stuck shed peeling a scale off. Did your snake get bit or burned in the past several months? Do you use a heat lamp or ceramic emitter inside the cage?

[shadowsspy]

No live just f/t

[shadowsspy]

He has not jeen bit and our heat source is a under tank heater on his hpt covered with sub so its warm but not hot enough to burn considering its on his back too

[Godzilla78]

You said earlier, “not sure what the humidity is” so that’s a red flag to me. If a bite, or burn is ruled out, could be a stuck shed that got ripped off.


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