help ball python is losing the top layer scales on head

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Originally Posted by B.O.S Reptiles

My Ball Python has a log hide and a rock hide. He uses both, regularly. We aren't talking about which hide is the best... The point is that log hides work.
Maybe they aren't the best (in "your" opinion) but your snake isn't going to parish or get stressed if it has a log hide.

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How can you tell if your snake is stressed or not?

Honestly, I have had this a couple of times and it is just rubbing. I would agree with the humidity; however, it is self-inflicted, so there's not much YOU can do. Just make sure the humidity is up for a good shed(s), and try to integrate smoother items in the snake's environment. If it gets down to skin, I have found that a little silver sulfad cream works to keep the area lubricated and disinfected. Some say this is fine on scales, but i say no because it softens and therefore diminishes the integrity of the scales IMO and experience. The snake should be alright. Their brains may be small, but they do know how to survive, and it isn't unreasonable to suspect that the snake at some point will stop rubbing the area so that it can heel. Hang in there :)

Pictures are very helpful in situations like this. I once thought I had a snake losing some scales on his head...turned out it was individual scales NOT shedding that caused a dull speckled pattern on it's head and at even a close inspection seemed that it had lost scales. With the next shed and better humidity everything turned out alright.

ok i bumped up the humidity and have been giving bath every day she just had a good shed yesterday and all her scales on her head look normal and shiney again thanx for the info it really helped alot

ok ive been giving her 15 min soaks a day i bumped up the humidity and she has a really good shed yesterday and all the scales on her head look normal and shiney thanx for the info it helped alot

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Originally Posted by B.O.S Reptiles

My Ball Python has a log hide and a rock hide. He uses both, regularly. We aren't talking about which hide is the best... The point is that log hides work.
Maybe they aren't the best (in "your" opinion) but your snake isn't going to parish or get stressed if it has a log hide.

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We've seen your enclosures.

It sounds like rubbing to me, they really only do this for a reason so go check all of your husbandry over to make sure everything is right.

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