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    Scrapes from Decor?

    So Miss Cinder is by far my best eater and the most active snake that I have, but when I took her out today I saw that she had some kind of crease up the middle of her belly. Not a real “line” just something that looked very similar to a snake “belly button”. There seemed to be a deeper crease with a little nick in the scales closer to her vent. I checked her temps/humidity and made sure that her heat mat was working correctly, but the only thing I could think of would be her decor? This girl climbs all over this fake tree hide in her enclosure. Could that be it? Doesn’t really look like a burn or scale rot. No discoloration or anything, just a crease in the scales.

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    Looks natural to me. Some snakes have them, some don't. Come be an upcoming shed. But some snakes just seem to have a crease like that.
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    my girl got a crease that ended at her vent before she was shedding. Probably just that.

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    In young snakes it can be their "belly button" where the umbilical cord was attached.
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    Re: Scrapes from Decor?

    Quote Originally Posted by KMG View Post
    In young snakes it can be their "belly button" where the umbilical cord was attached.

    Yes, this ^ ^ ^. Then in some snakes, the crease continues & enlarges, whereas for many other snakes, it disappears. It's harmless, & not a "scrape from decor" anyway. Not to worry.
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    Re: Scrapes from Decor?

    Yeah I’ve never seen it this large! On all of my other snakes it’s pretty much invisible unless you’re looking.
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    Re: Scrapes from Decor?

    Quote Originally Posted by SpookyLighthouse View Post
    Yeah I’ve never seen it this large! On all of my other snakes it’s pretty much invisible unless you’re looking.
    Well I have. I've seen a huge (deeper) inverted crease on some larger (heavier bodied) snakes, one that went all their entire length. At the time, I suspected it meant they'd spent some time in a dehydrated condition, from which their scutes never filled back out from, but I'm not sure.
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