KayTee = Calcium?

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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

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

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

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.

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Originally Posted by 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.

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

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Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes

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

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http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh1.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh2.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh3.jpg

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

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh1.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh2.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh3.jpg

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

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

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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.

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Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes

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.

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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?

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