EMERGENCY | My Ball Python's Scales Just Split

I'm finally here. Sorry about the wait.

I literally can't find my camera. I took the picture and I'll post them when I find the thing. I hate how they just disappear.

I'll explain how the shed went. It took him about a week after his eyes had turned back to the normal color to fully shed. I helped him a lot through out with some liquid treatment I have for stuck sheds. I made sure to not get it in the wounds. Not much has happened. He's still eating, I came home one day to a massive pile of poop, and he's still given the ointment and antibiotic shots. Dave is still gaining weight, which is great. He still feels stronger and his scales are mostly shiny from the shed. One of his scabs came off but it's beginning to regrow. Infection never got in.

I also found some four leaf clovers and a five leaf clover. Even if it's just a myth or whatever, I still want to tape it on his cage for luck.

So sorry about the wait. Hopefully I can find my camera, too.

under the bed? Between the bed and the wall? in the closet?

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We need to lo jack that camera!!

I found it but the stupid thing won't co- *gasp* It connected. Maybe punching it did work.

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Wow Dave is officially the hardest Bastard I know. So glad he gaining weight and getting stronger. I feel the worst is over and it's now a healing process. I just don't have a clue how long that will be. You keep doin what you doin coz you doin an amazing job.

He is very strong and I will keep fighting with him.

Also, my youngest ball python got himself stuck and we had to cut open the decoration he was in to get him out. He's such an idiot sometimes. That's why I love him.

Wow, Dave is a helluva fighter, and so are you. Keep up the good work, and the updates and photos!

Wow, he's gonna have some epic scars! Good story telling ;). But at least his skin looks firmly attached now. Way to go, both of you! :cool:

Oh. Wow. Those look gnarly. Definitely look like they're healing though. They're starting to look like my Basilisk's wound when it started healing up. Good job

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Originally Posted by ECechoHO

Young lady if i'm such a horrible snake/pet owner then why is it that none of my snakes have EVER had any health problems, this forum seems to be ego driven....

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Um because you don't have to have decent morals to have healthy pets. Would you have your same logic with say, a dog or cat? The difference here is that these are most likely captive-bred snakes who have never set foot in the wild. It would he more inhumane to "let nature take him" because of this than it would if he'd been caught in the wild. When your animals get sick do you just leave them to rot in isolation? That's what it sounds like. If you somehow managed to have never owned a sick animal, kudos to you. Even the best pet owners aren't that lucky.

ECechoHO lost this fight a long time ago. So did I for that matter. I really did not think this animal would make it and I thought it should be put down. I was wrong. Nixon did an awesome job. This is the first time I have ever heard of that a snake actually survived this disease.