Slight Wrinkled PINK BELLY on bottom portion of my Ball Python snake

[TheButters]

Hello,
My beautiful ball python snake has been having slight wrinkled pink belly on the bottom 1/3 portion of his body.
He's about 1-2 years old, Butters just moved from LA to San Diego last Winter. He has shed twice already; I am aware that that pinkish belly happens when ball pythons shed however, even after shedding and eating his food I notice the pinkish colored bottom portion of his belly has not gone away since he has moved down to San Diego! (Meaning prior to that he hasn't had this problem before) So I am wondering Butter's having an Respiratory Infection or any other kind of disease. Addition to this happening Butters has been not able to attack his small/medium rat himself, so attempts but fails, then he gives up and I put his food away. I tried smaller rat today and he still couldn't attack it. He shed last week so there's no way he's not hungry/ about to shed.

I'm worried about his belly There's a slight brownish line (about 1 inch) on the start of the pink belly area... I'm wondering if that's...
I decided to take some photos of his bottom portion of his belly, please check them out and suggest what I should do! Thank you!

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[Rob]

That's not pink belly, that's a burn. Check your heat source/thermostat ASAP, as well as taking care of that burn.

[TheButters]

My cage temp is on the low side though. He's heating pad only reaches up to 70 degrees. It's usually on the low 70s to mid 70s.
Would it be still possible that it's temperature burn from 70s?

[MorphMaster]

My cage temp is on the low side though. He's heating pad only reaches up to 70 degrees. It's usually on the low 70s to mid 70s.
Would it be still possible that it's temperature burn from 70s?

Well then the heating source is too low, it should be approx 90 degrees. So I am a little wary of what is going on. If you're telling the truth, then maybe scale rot? I'm not sure...

[Rob]

My cage temp is on the low side though. He's heating pad only reaches up to 70 degrees. It's usually on the low 70s to mid 70s.
Would it be still possible that it's temperature burn from 70s?

No that temp wouldn't burn the animal. But something did, are you using a thermostat?

[TheButters]

Yes I'm worried that it's a scale rot. Hmmm unless my thermeter is incorrect... my heating pad & cage measures in the 70s degrees.
Thanks for possible lead MorphMaster! What do other people think?

[Tannerrrtx]

What I am getting from this is you are reading your ambient air temp as your heat pad,
all pads get HOT. I have burned myself on one. Place your probe on the glass where the heat pad is. I'm guessing it will read around 98.

But that's definitely a burn.

Edit. Or feel check it with your hand if you believe your thermometer is broken.

[TheButters]

I have two thermostats:

1st one is a sticker thermometer that is stuck on the surface of the plastic cage where the heating pad is stuck from the outside.

2nd one is Analog Dual Thermometer and Humidity Gauge
http://www.amazon.com/Zoo-Med-Econom...le+temperature

Unless both of them are wrong... the temperature reads between low 70s to low 80s at the most.

[TheButters]

No I was wrong! The sticker thermometer is reading the heating pad as high 80s!

*Edit: oops, I meant to say thermometer instead of thermostat

[Rob]

Those are thermometers not thermostats!
A thermostat controls the temperature of your heat source. A thermometer only tells you the temp. What I'm gathering is your running your heat mat unregulated. That will burn your snake, and it did.