Weird skin fold under the chin?
My bp ate two f/t hoppers yesterday (he needed the extra food but isn't big enough to take a mouse yet) and one of the hoppers had a belly burst when he struck at it, so it made a bit of a mess. I cleaned it out today and I noticed when I took him out to replace the paper towels that under his chin there's a weird fold of skin, like if it was pinched between someone's fingers and never went back... What could this be? I thought maybe there was something wrong with the humidity, but it's been constantly between 50 and 60% so... :S
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Pics would be nice, but he may have not fully re-aligned his jaws yet too, that could be a possibility.
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I'll try to get pics but I don't want to handle him a lot today because I don't wanna make him regurge... If it's still there in a couple days after he's digested, I'll try to snap some pics.
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All BP's have that fold of skin, allows for jaw expansion
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I've never seen a fold of skin on my snakes chin...hmm...now I want to go check..
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It looks like a little slit
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Yeah, I know about that, but the OP said a fold of skin...
OP are you talking about this:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/believethelie/3797449341/
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its there so ur snake can open its mouth far enough to get food in
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AkHerps
Technically it is a fold of skin
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llovelace
It looks like a little slit
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llovelace
All BP's have that fold of skin, allows for jaw expansion
No, I knew about that one. It's like a little bit of skin that kind of hangs down. You know how people pinch the skin on your hand to tell if you're hydrated? And the skin goes down slowly if you're not. It kind of looks like someone pinched the skin on his chin and it never went down...
