royal python has skin problems

Hello, I'm mew to the forum and my male Royal Python has just shed and some of its scales have turned white and it seems he has some scrape looking red marks down his spine and i was wondering if anyone could help with this ?? Also how do you upload photos so i can show you it.

Many thanks

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You'll have to host your pics on another site then use the insert image button to display them in a post. Also, describing your set up can help members determine what's causing the problem and how to fix it.

How to Post Pictures: http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...-Post-Pictures

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Thank you very much for the help on that one.

The vivarium is a vivexotic with aspen bedding the heating is a ceramic bulb set at 30 degrees during the day with a guard where he cant get to the heater. also has two beds logs and a water bowl in the colder side of the viv

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Originally Posted by danrobins14

...it seems he has some scrape looking red marks down his spine...

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Understatement of the year after seeing your pictures! Did you get him like this? When did it happen? How long has it been? What have you done about it so far?

Whoa! Those look like burns. Are you sure he can't get to the heater?

I'd soak him in a weak iodine/betadine solution and then put silvadene ointment on it.

No never got him like this. I took him to the vets about 2 weeks ago and he said wait till he sheds which he now has done and this is what it looks like after shed. So over all I would say about 3 weeks it's been like this. Yeah he can't get to the heater

Where can you get iodine and silvadene from

Vet visit needed asap

Yikes! Were those places healed/mostly healed and then got re-opened by the shed, or has it looked like that the whole time?

It healed then he shed and it came out like this

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Originally Posted by pbyeerts

Vet visit needed asap

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Seconding. Is the vet you are currently seeing a reptile specialist or a general practitioner?

Would you mind posting pics of your setup?

Yeah he deals with reptiles. I'm gonna book him in again tomorrow

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Originally Posted by danrobins14

It healed then he shed and it came out like this

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Ok. Unfortunately wounds can re-open when the scabs get pulled off during shed.

Your vet should be able to give you the silvadene (silver sulfadiazine), iodine/betadine should be available at a drug store.

I'm gonna give the vet a ring today. Hope it ain't to bad

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Originally Posted by Shamri

Would you mind posting pics of your setup?

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