Sick Ball

The wounds may be burns from the stomach acids. Is it possible the FT mouse was bad? I never feed frozen, I like to know the health and condition of a rodent before I feed it to my snake. Unfortunately with FT you have no idea of the health and freshness of the rodent:(

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Originally Posted by patthesnakeman

A friend of mine lost his entire collection to something very similar to what that sounds like. His snakes were seriously being eating alive by a flesh eating like virus. Even the vets out here (that were licensed) had no idea what it was. He said that it happens so fast too, how long of a duration is there between new discoveries?

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That's pretty scary. As if worry about IBD wasn't enough!

Just got her back from the vet, it looks like the under tank heater malfunctioned and overheated (then cooled back down) so she got burned and as a result she got some sort of bacterial skin infection.
The vet gave her some ointment that has some antibacterial which should be applied once a day. If she is not better in a couple of days i´m supposed to bring her back and she will give her some antibacterial injection.

Do you have a thermostat?

If you dont you may cook the poor guy:(

I both have a thermostat and a humidity meter.

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Originally Posted by Kitkat

I both have a thermostat and a humidity meter.

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A thermostat controls the heat output, a thermometer simply measures it. Under Tank heaters reach 120 degrees uncontrolled, so it is VERY important that it is plugged into something to reduce the power output.

If you currently have nothing controlling it, Unplug it! The least you should have is a lamp dimmer from the hardware store to tune it down, but those do fluctuate. The rheostats that you can buy from zoomed DONT WORK, don't bother with them, the low setting keeps the UTH (undet tank heater) at 100 degrees (ive tried them:() Let us know what your situation is.

Thanks, Will do.
The under tank heater I used was from Exo terra and it has worked very well for the past two years, here is the link

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Originally Posted by Kitkat

I both have a thermostat and a humidity meter.

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What kind? I used to have several $30 petstore thermostats(ESU,made in china crap) and they were all over the place. They would go from 78-98 without moving the settings. Pure garbage. I always tell people a good t-stat(Ranco) for $80 is much less than Vet visits and meds. Same goes for under tank heaters.