First BP, I need help

So I got my first Ball Python about half a year ago, her name being Mia. She's technically not my snake, she's my brother's, but I love her despite that. Anyway, I don't know how long ago, but at some point, awhile ago, she got some horrible looking wounds on the bottom of her body. IDK how to describe it, and I never got a picture of it, but it looked somewhat like this(as in the nubs) https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...2FDSC_0009.JPG
Today, she still has scabs of the wound, and it doesn't look good. The top half of her shed over 3 weeks ago, but her tail and lower body, where the wounds are, hasn't shed. My brother never seemed worried, so we never took her to the vet, but now, I don't know. Here are some pictures that will hopefully seem familiar to someone.
Her whole lower body:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...0f3ae2e357.jpg

Where the shedding stopped:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...d22787c505.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ba5e2d3031.jpg

Her tail(which the very end has already fallen off):
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...bd96814bde.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...e2d482fe94.jpg

The wound where it has shed:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...c19641ff7a.jpg


To sum it up, I have no clue what happened to her, and don't know what to do. Should I take her to the vet, use a warm wet cloth to try and get it off, pamper her with Neosporin and hope for the best, or...? Thanks in Advance

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Originally Posted by BattleWhale

So I got my first Ball Python about half a year ago, her name being Mia. She's technically not my snake, she's my brother's, but I love her despite that. Anyway, I don't know how long ago, but at some point, awhile ago, she got some horrible looking wounds on the bottom of her body. IDK how to describe it, and I never got a picture of it, but it looked somewhat like this(as in the nubs) https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...2FDSC_0009.JPG
Today, she still has scabs of the wound, and it doesn't look good. The top half of her shed over 3 weeks ago, but her tail and lower body, where the wounds are, hasn't shed. My brother never seemed worried, so we never took her to the vet, but now, I don't know. Here are some pictures that will hopefully seem familiar to someone.
Her whole lower body:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...0f3ae2e357.jpg

Where the shedding stopped:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...d22787c505.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...ba5e2d3031.jpg

Her tail(which the very end has already fallen off):
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...bd96814bde.jpg
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...e2d482fe94.jpg

The wound where it has shed:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/cach...c19641ff7a.jpg


To sum it up, I have no clue what happened to her, and don't know what to do. Should I take her to the vet, use a warm wet cloth to try and get it off, pamper her with Neosporin and hope for the best, or...? Thanks in Advance

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How is is the tank being heated? Is he using an under tank heater? If so is it regulated by a thermoSTAT? Those look like burns to me and at this point the snake needs to see a vet. Make sure you find a vet who treats exotics.

Those are burns from an unregulated heat source, I'd guess under-tank heater rather than a heat rock from the burn pattern. That snake needed a vet months ago.

In the meantime unplug the heater until you can get a thermostat to regulate it.

This is a thermostat: https://www.amazon.com/Zilla-Reptile...1759684&sr=8-1