Weird skin fold under the chin?

My bp ate two f/t hoppers yesterday (he needed the extra food but isn't big enough to take a mouse yet) and one of the hoppers had a belly burst when he struck at it, so it made a bit of a mess. I cleaned it out today and I noticed when I took him out to replace the paper towels that under his chin there's a weird fold of skin, like if it was pinched between someone's fingers and never went back... What could this be? I thought maybe there was something wrong with the humidity, but it's been constantly between 50 and 60% so... :S

Pics would be nice, but he may have not fully re-aligned his jaws yet too, that could be a possibility.

I'll try to get pics but I don't want to handle him a lot today because I don't wanna make him regurge... If it's still there in a couple days after he's digested, I'll try to snap some pics.

All BP's have that fold of skin, allows for jaw expansion

I've never seen a fold of skin on my snakes chin...hmm...now I want to go check..

It looks like a little slit

Yeah, I know about that, but the OP said a fold of skin...

OP are you talking about this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/believethelie/3797449341/

its there so ur snake can open its mouth far enough to get food in

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

Yeah, I know about that, but the OP said a fold of skin...

OP are you talking about this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/believethelie/3797449341/

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Technically it is a fold of skin

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Originally Posted by AkHerps

Yeah, I know about that, but the OP said a fold of skin...

OP are you talking about this:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/believethelie/3797449341/

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Originally Posted by llovelace

It looks like a little slit

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Originally Posted by llovelace

All BP's have that fold of skin, allows for jaw expansion

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No, I knew about that one. It's like a little bit of skin that kind of hangs down. You know how people pinch the skin on your hand to tell if you're hydrated? And the skin goes down slowly if you're not. It kind of looks like someone pinched the skin on his chin and it never went down...

ok , pics would be really helpful :)

this actually happened to one of my normals when i fed it small adult mouse. it is kinda big for him, that stayed there for like almost 2 days and just disappeared. i thought it might just be a stretched skin since that was a pretty big feed. i never fed him small adult mouse again after that, i'll wait when he grows larger.

but you fed hopper.. that shouldnt really be that big, unless you got one very big hopper which already happened to me which is almost as big as a small adult mouse.

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Originally Posted by theartofsolitude

this actually happened to one of my normals when i fed it small adult mouse. it is kinda big for him, that stayed there for like almost 2 days and just disappeared. i thought it might just be a stretched skin since that was a pretty big feed. i never fed him small adult mouse again after that, i'll wait when he grows larger.

but you fed hopper.. that shouldnt really be that big, unless you got one very big hopper which already happened to me which is almost as big as a small adult mouse.

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it was a fairly small hopper, too... but maybe the skin stretched anyways because I had to feed him two that day and he's not used to having more than one a week, much less two in one day...?

I checked his chin today and it no longer has a fold, but the scales look a bit funny (it doesn't seem to be bothering him though) so I'm pretty convinced that it was just stretched out as was said above because he ate more than he was used to.