my male tiger might be calico

no its cool man im just leting every buddy know that every thing is ok with him thats why its weird for me to see all the white on his face and dorsal ,,, but yeah i get what you saying it just seemed like i had p you off a little or something, sorry if i had!

ill see if i cant get clearer pics

and the shed that you all see will be coming off after this is posted

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Originally Posted by playingwithsnake_21

no its cool man im just leting every buddy know that every thing is ok with him thats why its weird for me to see all the white on his face and dorsal ,,, but yeah i get what you saying it just seemed like i had p you off a little or something, sorry if i had!

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no man its all good

idk its looks crazy in person but the pics just make it so nasty looking ,,,, i dont know , the spot on his head looks kinda ugly but the the rest on him just looks cool as heck

dang that was a hassle, man it was hell trying to get that last bit of shed off of him,,,woo

still looking for input on this hes no sick or any thing hasnt had stuck shed and does not have a calcium defect,,,, and there not burns,,, any buddy have any thing else that might be up with him of has had experience with this just let me know

I have heard of snakes getting bad feeders and then shedding out parts of their coloration. I have also heard of snakes developing fungal or bacterial growth under the skin and it caused the snake to lose color. i would have your vet take an actual sample and TEST for some kind of microbe or something. Just looking him over would not be enough, you would need tests. As for the snake possibly being calico, it doesn't look like a random and clear enough distribution of white. Calico retics do develop their white over time, but you would think it would be in more random places than just those few. Especially with how round the patch is on the head, it looks like exactly what a skin ailment would do, it would start at one point and radiate outwards in a circle. You can see how at the edges, some of the scales are half white, half brown, and witch calico scales, the whole scale is usually white, but half and half. That is the main thing that makes it look not-at-all calico. I have seen a whole lot of calico snakes and something just doesn't look right about the patches on yours, especially that round one. It looks really suspicious. I would definitely not go calling it a calico just yet. It literally looks like the white just started radiating outward from the center and like it may possibly continue to do so. It looks scary! I would have tests run to try and find the cause of the problem, you can't possibly know if he's actually sick or something without testing for it. good luck!

let us know what it looks like after a couple sheds . I will lay odds that it is only due to pieces of old shed. my tiger and my java have done this before.

well guys i just got back from the vet once again , i have been there since like 4 or 5 he said that the spot on the face is from a rub while in shed and caused it to be irritated but the rest is random spotting he said which can be a genetic uniformity not calico, but he gave me some repti wound healing aid for the face rub,,, but the rest isnt calico and isnt any thing bad, its just random spotting he said wild caught snake are seen doing this