Scale Rot?

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Originally Posted by Tempo1889

Cause I am new to all of this and have had mixed information on this subject. As a keeper yourself I am sure you are aware of the thousands of answers on one subject and seldom are they all the same if ever. He was only in water for less then 10 seconds and once he got out I didn't force him back in I just held him a bit then put him back.

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your water was probably too hot if he reacted like that. you should really never soak when going through the shed cycle, only when they are having trouble with their shed.

hope this is helpful

well i went to the vet today and to be honest im not saticfied with my results. i saw dr engle with newkent animal hospital..seemed like a nice enough and knowlegable guy however things just dont add up to me.

he told me it wasnt a burn and that it wasnt scalerot and that it was all just a bad shed. he described scalerot as a red sores turning into brown scales an as he says this im looking at the snake thinking "ok shes pinkish and a tinge of tan" in the one area ive been worried about. i asked him multiple times "so ur sure its not scalerot?" and he continued to tell me no.

bah...i want a second vet and can see this start to stack in the bills already. visit was $60 plus he took the snake in the back while i waited in nthe lobby and removed some more of the shedding. WHICH to me brings up a interesting note....my snake has 2 layers of shedding skin....example while at the vets i noticed the tip of the tail had shedded off into the container i brought her in, well i got her home and there is another layer of shedding skin. almost the whole back half of the snake had shed off in my last soak and yet theres still another layer of foggy shedding skin....why does my snake having 2 sheds at once? the doctor did say he made an attempt to remove the eye caps and was only able to remove one layer off the left eye and they both have/had two.


also can i get betadine over the counter?

also i fogot to mention i need to raise temps and humidity. told me to spray water with a bottle more often and to change from the wood based substrate i had been using to news paper "like many of u have mentioned" he also told me to try sterile topsoil.

Thanks for the info I am happy to say that when I got home from work yesterday I heard a rustling sound when I looked in the cage there he was in his hide shedding his skin. I didn't get the one piece "trophy" that everyone shoots for but close to it. Thanks again for your help.