Dry white spot....

there is about 3 dry white areas on my snakes body that have been there since i got it... does anyone know what it is? i will have a few pics of it in a few days because my parents have the camera with them on vacation.

What area of the body approximately? And what do you feed him/her?

Sounds like they may be scars.

Yah thats what I was thinking too.

nah, probably not scars. peanut has a couple of dead scales on her neck that are "white spots". they go away, and come back every now and then. a couple of sheds and the old ones are usually gone.

It could be one or the other....without pics its hard to say.

how big are these "white spots"?

they are on the body on the back where the little "alien markings" are around that area. they are maybe about 15 scales total area... it looks like they are just rotted scales... is that normal? i dont think theyre scars but i dont know much about snakes.

Hmmm Im no expert either but what I can tell you is my snake HAD two white spots on his head when I first got him, after his last shed,poof no more white spots,perhaps its dry remains of an incomplete shed if there is such a thing.

Yeah I have seen a couple of stray shed scales left over not a big patch or anything though.

I have a "foolproof" way of getting rid of retained shed pieces; if you use this method before every shed, you probably will never encounter them again.
I transform my snake's entire cage during shed time. I start a day or two after the eyes go blue. I "up" the humidity to around 70-80 percent, by putting moist sphagnum moss all around the cage floor. I keep my several layers of newspaper in there too, moistening them as needed. I spray the inside walls of the cage with very warm water from a clean spray bottle. I keep the hides moist as well; I use modified tupperware containers, and I make sure that all have some moist sphagnum in there. I know that most people only provide one humid hdie at shed time, but my snakes never seemed to use it, and I was having some pathetic 5-piece-plus sheds. Since I switched to a "humid cage", I have had nothing but "one-piece, eyecap-intact" sheds; this is what has worked for me!

I used to just put one humid hide, but mine never used it as well. Now I still add the humid hide, but a put a small chunck of damp moss in his other hide as well and mist often and he sheds fine now.

I might have to give that a try Ginevive, that sounds pretty good:gj: To the op, I think it may be dried pieces of the last shed also. After my bp's last shed, I found a small patch that sounds very similar to what you're describing and found it to be just a small piece of stuck shed. Next shed, cleared right up!

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Originally Posted by Quickone4u

I might have to give that a try Ginevive, that sounds pretty good:gj: To the op, I think it may be dried pieces of the last shed also. After my bp's last shed, I found a small patch that sounds very similar to what you're describing and found it to be just a small piece of stuck shed. Next shed, cleared right up!

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I doubt the OP will see this, since it happened over 5 years ago. :rofl:

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Originally Posted by mrshawt

I doubt the OP will see this, since it happened over 5 years ago. :rofl:

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Wow, haha:rolleye2: I didn't even pay any attention t othe date except for the post above, oh well!:rofl: