Small head

When will his head every grow? I feel like he has a small head for such a long, fat body [emoji30] he was a rescue from Petsmart, no one would buy him and I felt sorry for him, I bonded with him and decided it would kill me if he sold so I bought him.....he should be coming on three years old, about 3.5 ft long and somewhere around 900-1000grams, my scale isn't the best

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And what are those dry looking patches on his head? Even after a clean shed he has them [emoji35]


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I've got the exact same questions so bump :)

Looks like he is missing scales to me. Has he ever been injured? His head looks normal sized for a ball.

Head size looks normal to me. These snakes don't get very big. Males tend to stay on the small side.

Sometimes the outer coating of the scale, the shiny part, gets pulled off with a shed. Should be back to normal next shed cycle. Or he rubbed his head on something. is there anything in his enclosure that he could rub his head on?

Either way, its not too big a deal.

Cute pin you have there :)

Thank you, I love this boy!!!! I'm so attached to him, he is the sweetest thing....there is a rock like cave but he has had these dry looking places for a while, I even put neosporin on them and nothing helps, he has had several sheds and it's still there. His head size concerned me but I guess I like all my animals with some size on them so I expected the same with him, but he refuses to be a "big" snake [emoji36]


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Another pic of him curled in his hide box that I keep wet rags in when it's close to shed time

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The neosporin probably made it worse. Just leave it be and it will heal up with the next shed most likely. neosporin has a tendency to make the outer coating of scales slough off like that.

Ok, thanks for the info [emoji1360]


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The size is fine for a male.

The dry scales is something I've experienced on a couple of my bp too, can't find a real explanation but it seems to be related to low humidity. It usually goes away with the next shed.
If someone with more experience has a precise answer i'd like it too.

I don't think the head is too small. I think they all have tiny heads until they get a lot older. Their necks thicken up. Mine look the same way. Little heads on a fat body. I think part of the reason for that is over feeding.

Mine sure isn't over fed, I would like for him to eat once a week but sometimes he doesn't agree with me [emoji36]


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His head looks normal sized.

Ball Pythons are considered some of the more "heavy bodied" snakes. Their heads tend to look small compared to their bodies. That said, I have noticed some have a bit of a bigger or smaller head, compared to others. Some have a shorter head. My Pastel Lesser girl has a very petite head, while my pastel Lesser girl has a really big and long head.

But all of their heads look small compared to body size.

Looks like he had a pretty bad injury to the head at one time and now the scales don't grow normal there ? The hard outer layer is missing (the actual scale). Doesn't look infected or like its causing any issues. Its giving him personality. I wouldn't worry about it.

He is a lucky snake to have ended up with you :)

He has never had an injury, unless he had it as a hatchling before being shipped to petsmart. He shed last night and his head piece came off as normal but you could tell on the skin that those scales don't have the "shine". [emoji848][emoji848]


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Did he have the hard layer on the scales missing ever since you've had him ?

Or did he used to have normal scales on his head ?

When I got him they were all shiny, now they aren't, it's been this way for several months now, for sure no injuries since I have had him which had been for almost two years


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