Hello,
Wish my first post was of a better topic. Long story short. I recently got back into keeping Ball Pythons, I had to take a hiatus in keeping them due to traveling a lot at work. I have 2 in a divided 40g breeding with a heat mat, controlled with a Herpstat. I have a CSerpents rack being delivered tomorrow.
My newest snake a Mojave Het Ghost female managed to tear about an inch of scales. As I did not see what happened, just heard her fall, I am assuming she climbed onto her thermometer and it came unstuck. I checked on her and she was in her hide with the thermometer stuck to her. She had ripped about an inch of scales off. I got the thermometer off with vegetable oil (Thanks Google, seems like its not an uncommon thing to happen). I rinsed her off with water and put Neosporin on the cut/tear. I am attaching pictures of what it looks like. I am not sure what to do. I am going to call some Veterinarians tomorrow morning, hopefully I can find one that deals with reptiles. I just moved to Az so I do not know any Vets here yet. Will a vet be able to do anything for her? Will she be able to shed properly? I feel so bad for her. 1 more day and she would of been in the new rack and this wouldn't have happened. Thank you for any advice.
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