What is this???? (Pics Included)

OK well i just got out my BP too see something on her neck. It is a weird cluster of white on her neck.I don't know what it is but my first suspicion was mites but they don't move lol.So then i thought extra shed from when she was with the reptile house?But when i soaked her it did not come off.....She did shed a few days ago.I can't get any pics up when i try it says "Image file too big".:(

Does anyone know what this is i am kinda worried.

Ahhhh crap i put pics included in the title SORRY!!!!! Ignore the pic thing...

Weird cluster of white that looks like scales?

I have a girl that had an injury on her neck before we got her, and it looks like the scales healed wrong and split up into a lot of tiny little scales and formed a cluster.

Hopefully you can get that pic up.

It does look llike that they are tiny little things .... Maybe just lost shed?I have also noticed that she seems to have not been kept properly she has bumps etc everywhere.

Ok i did the pic here it is look at the neck.

https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil.../dgf_thumb.jpg

I think she had a bad shed and lost the pigment on those scales.

Edit -- just saw the pic.

Oh my god im useless..... Here is a better pic i hope....


https://ball-pythons.net/gallery/fil...6345_thumb.jpg

Im using adobe photoshop lol but you can go to my gallery for a better picture.Sorry !!

Anyone? I am now noticing what bad conditions she must of been kept in. Some of her scales are dented !! I'll look after her now awww poor little mite . Ehhhh triple post oops...

Could be bad shed.. or mite bites..

My guess was she had a piece of stuck shed come off there. But it's hard to know for sure from just the picture. How long have you had her?

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Originally Posted by LAWReptiles

or mite bites..

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Mite bites???

I've never seen a Mite bite without a mite being there.. and when they leave, there is no substantial visual anything left there.

Can you explain that to me? Maybe I'm not being as vigilant and am missing something?


To the OP, looks like scales are missing. No big deal :)

i would say missing scales from the last shed

Hard to tell from the pick. Ive seen mites get under the scale, bite and the bites get infected. The swelling causes the scale to lift off the body and it looses color.. Its a far cry.. It was just my 2 cents :D

My BP has a a line of white pigments almost like a collar.

I don't know if it still has it. I posted pics too, I think it was said that it as a bad shed.

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Originally Posted by LAWReptiles

Hard to tell from the pick. Ive seen mites get under the scale, bite and the bites get infected. The swelling causes the scale to lift off the body and it looses color.. Its a far cry.. It was just my 2 cents :D

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Never seen that before... Interesting.

In that pic it looks like the snake is about to shed, Im not sure if its just the way the pic looks, but I would wait until after it sheds and see if those white scales are still there.

Haha i know when she is in the sun she goes blue!! It is a weird site and i have had her for 2 weeks she is eating too.

she might have fell on something in her enclsure.they are a bit clumsy