Dry skin?

I just got a new baby ball python barely a week ago, and I'm a littel concerned ablut his skin. My mom picked him up as asurprise from teh pet store. His skin has some spots where the scales look dried up. The guy in the store said it was from the mite bath he had before. I just wanted to confirm that that was true, and will the dried scales go away, perhaps the next time he sheds? Other then these scales teh snake looks healthy, and is very active. He's also been drinking a lot of water.

Thanks!

Poor thing is probably dehydrated. Make sure it has plenty of water and that the enclosure is at 50% or better humidity so that it can recover from its previous lack of care. I hope you'll take good care of it.

Thanks, i've been giving him lots of water and kept the humidity up. At least he's active. And very sweet!
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hi and welcome to the site! i'm glad you're gonna be taking care of your new little guy from now on. post some pics of him sometime so we can check him out! :D

Excellent. The activity level is a good sign that he wasn't neglected too long. You definitely want to keep a good eye on him, though.

How do I post pictures? I'm pretty new to forums. Does teh picture already have to be posted online, or can it just be in my documents?

Read this sticky: http://www.ball-pythons.net/PNphpBB2...ic-t-2650.html
Then this one: http://www.ball-pythons.net/PNphpBB2...ic-t-2515.html
And this one for resizing: http://www.ball-pythons.net/PNphpBB2...ic-t-1777.html

And they should answer all your questions! :)

When I'm to lazy to put pictures up in the gallery I host em at
www.imageshack.us
Its free, and no registering.

I might do that. I'm on a mac, so I can't get the proporties when I right click. I posted the pic in teh gallery, tho. Macs are wierd sometimes x.x

if you right click and then select "open image in new window" then you can copy and paste the address that it gives you in that new window.

is there another way to get the pic url?

we just posted at the same time. :D see above ^^^

https://ball-pythons.net/modules/cop...808/reggie.JPG


My little baby Reggie. The batteries in my camera died after i took this one, i'll post more after i get some new ones.

aw he's a cutie. i look forward to you getting those new batteries. :aww:

He is cute, but looks skinny ... hard to tell really from that picture.
Atleast he is in good hands now.

when i got my baby she was also kinda dehydrated,not badly though, her skin was really loose and crinkly,almost like when they are shedding but she wasnt shedding so i knew it was dehydration so i just soaked her a few times and kept the humidity levels nice and high and now she is perfect.

yeh mine has some of those dry looking spots to on the back but some one said it was just an unusal pattern

Mine has had the odd grouping of kind of crusty scales. I never have been able to totally erradicate them, they just seem to be in a different place after every shed.