Mouth Rot????????

My baby female ball python has been staying in her hide pretty much 24/7 the last two days, which is strange because she normally comes out and explores around her enclosure and hangs out on one of her branches during the day. today i pull her out and i notice a brown "stain" if you will around the front of her mouth. this was never here on her before and ive had her for several months. it has developed within the last three days when i last held her. she was fed on sunday and it wasnt there after she was fed. i know she wasnt bitten in her mouth although a nail could have scratched her mouth. ive never had to open her mouth before so i havent figured out how to do that but i did get some pictures of the "stain" on the outside of her mouth. im concerned it could be mouth rot but i havent seen the inside of her mouth yet and i have never had to deal with mouth rot with any of my snakes so ive never seen it first hand.. any thoughts or opinions would be great....

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thanks Derek. dont know how you did it but thank you!!!


any thoughts guys? am i being paranoid? do i need to pry her mouth open and check it out?

What kind of substrate do you have her on? I use Eco earth which is brown and when I mist it an it gets wet sometimes it will make my snakes mouths brownish from rubbing off on it.

i just finished treating her for mites so she was on a clean sheet so it wasnt the substrate rubbing off on her. if her reptibark was in there i would have thought the same thing!

I was told by my local pet store you can treat mouth rot with dabbing hydrogen peroxide with a q-tip around the mouth and that will help it.

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Originally Posted by jbabybulldog

I was told by my local pet store you can treat mouth rot with dabbing hydrogen peroxide with a q-tip around the mouth and that will help it.

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Honestly, I wouldn't believe anything a pet store told me.

To look into her mouth, use a q-tip to gently pry her mouth open. I'd look for anything suspicious. I am a worry-wort though and would probably be taking her to the vet to be 100% sure.