pink belly?

My male pinstripe recently started developing VERY faint pinkish blotches on his belly. He just shed a few weeks ago so I don't think its an impending shed. I've been pairing him up w/ my female spider, and she doesn't have ANY blotches, so I don't THINK its like a protozoan infection. At first, I thought it maybe a minor burn from the UTH, because when he's w/ my female she likes to be on top and kind of squishes him towards the bottom,closer to the UTH. Any thoughts? I don't have a photobucket account, so the link to the pic is on my myspace:

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/inde...ageID=55918619

What substrates are you using? I ran out of cypress once and mixed in some reptibark from a friend, and I noticed my biggest girl would have indentations and pink patches on her belly, presumably from her body weight pushing down on a chunkier substrate. If you just have patches that come and go, and chunky substrate, this could be the case.

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Originally Posted by Vacado

What substrates are you using? I ran out of cypress once and mixed in some reptibark from a friend, and I noticed my biggest girl would have indentations and pink patches on her belly, presumably from her body weight pushing down on a chunkier substrate. If you just have patches that come and go, and chunky substrate, this could be the case.

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I use cypress w/ my female, and I have reptibark w/ the male. You know I never would have thought of that, that definitely could be it. I just switched to cypress and I love it,it keeps humidity so well. I just have the male on reptibark bc I just had a little bit left in the bag and didn't wanna waste it. Funny thing is he likes to hide under his water bowl,but he's gotten a little chunkier so i know the weight of the water bowl is squishing him on top of the reptibark. Thanks!

imo looks like he's starting shed cycle

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Originally Posted by llovelace

imo looks like he's starting shed cycle

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shed...

Either the moisture is too high or its from shedding, if your moisture is fine, dont worry, I have many ball pythons with pink bellies :)

I would think that but he just shed like 2 weeks ago

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Originally Posted by joshthaxton

I would think that but he just shed like 2 weeks ago

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They shed more frequently when they are stressed. Breeding is a stressful activity. ;)