KayTee = Calcium?

I spoke to someone on the phone today who suggest feeding pinkies with a syringe, some sort of Kaytee product to help the snakes get calcium?

Anyone know what she's talking about?

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

I spoke to someone on the phone today who suggest feeding pinkies with a syringe, some sort of Kaytee product to help the snakes get calcium?

Anyone know what she's talking about?

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A pinkie is already born with a functioning skeletal system with more than enough Ca for a healthy specimen.

I've not heard of calcium being added to snakes rodents before. I thought that was predominantly a lizard thing personally.

No additional supplements are necessary.
Snakes get all their essential nutrition from whole prey. Whole prey(rodents) is already a balanced diet.

Thank you guys. She suggested it because I told her about his thin form.

Now Kaa's scales seem to be sticking out, and his bottom scales are kind of doing it too, getting a little brown at the very edge of some of them, very few.

Does this mean he will shed soon? or is this a sign of some scale rot going on?

He had shed some time before I brought him home, which was on Halloween and he had an incomplete shed going on during that time.

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

Thank you guys. She suggested it because I told her about his thin form.

Now Kaa's scales seem to be sticking out, and his bottom scales are kind of doing it too, getting a little brown at the very edge of some of them, very few.

Does this mean he will shed soon? or is this a sign of some scale rot going on?

He had shed some time before I brought him home, which was on Halloween and he had an incomplete shed going on during that time.

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That sounds a bit vague...can you post a pic?

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Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes

That sounds a bit vague...can you post a pic?

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http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh1.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh2.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh3.jpg

They are a bit hard to see, sorry, taken with my phone.

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh1.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh2.jpg

http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/j...a1234/huh3.jpg

They are a bit hard to see, sorry, taken with my phone.

Btw that isn't my nipple D:

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I was wondering if you had tried to undress again, lol. I do not see anything critical, maybe just some bad scales that need to come off next shed, just keep the cage environment well.

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Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes

I was wondering if you had tried to undress again, lol. I do not see anything critical, maybe just some bad scales that need to come off next shed, just keep the cage environment well.

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By well, do you mean dry? I touched up his tank today and moistened his bark bedding as well and laid out some moist moss to give him some humidity. Should I take all that stuff out or will he be ok with moisture?

It looks like very minor minor scale rot. Nothing to worry about. It will go away in the next shed.

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

By well, do you mean dry? I touched up his tank today and moistened his bark bedding as well and laid out some moist moss to give him some humidity. Should I take all that stuff out or will he be ok with moisture?

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That is fine so long as it dries easily...I find moss for Python regius to do more harm than good honestly, nice well saturated substrate that dries throughout the week has produced perfect sheds for me.

Keeping my snakes on reptibark, I start noticing that if they've been a while without a shed. It goes away when they shed and I only see it happening if they decide to go 2+ months without shedding.

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Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes

That is fine so long as it dries easily...I find moss for Python regius to do more harm than good honestly, nice well saturated substrate that dries throughout the week has produced perfect sheds for me.

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Through out the week? My poor babes are dry again before the day ends. -sighs-

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Through out the week? My poor babes are dry again before the day ends. -sighs-

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A friend of mine in Kansas is currently misting every other day for his glass cages...everybody else is in tubs and are fairing well with the saturation method. Granted he is dwelling in a thermostat controlled apartment.

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A friend of mine in Kansas is currently misting every other day for his glass cages...everybody else is in tubs and are fairing well with the saturation method. Granted he is dwelling in a thermostat controlled apartment.

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I'm not really sure what to expect with Kaa right now. He's dry feeling, and his scales are sticking out in certain areas more then normal, like his belly and his sides. Is he going to shed soon? His eyes aren't blue or cloudy, and I'm afraid adding moisture to him may cause further problems with his health right now. :\

Just keep his husbandry in the ideal range for BPs and that will clear up with next shed, as Nikki mentioned. If it eases your mind, move him onto paper towels and monitor his humidity to make sure it doesn't go too high or low. X2 on damp bedding that dries throughout the week to release humidity in tanks, works well for me.

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My guy sheds fully but not in one piece,but always completely on his own...I'm trying different substrates myself...aspen and coco husk,next is Eco earth..but I have coco husk I one now and he is in deep shed,so I added water to the coco husk and added some shpagnum moss around the tank,guess I'll find out when he sheds how right I did it

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Originally Posted by KayleighBrown

I'm not really sure what to expect with Kaa right now. He's dry feeling, and his scales are sticking out in certain areas more then normal, like his belly and his sides. Is he going to shed soon? His eyes aren't blue or cloudy, and I'm afraid adding moisture to him may cause further problems with his health right now. :\

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If you want to ease your worries a bit, you can put him on paper towels and just keep humidity nice & moderate at ~50-60%; however, be ready to give him a good soak when he comes out of blue.