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Is this considered SEVERE Scale Rot?
Pictures here (5): https://imgur.com/a/QY8gIhn
I believe my new snake has scale rot, but I don't know the level of severity. Every picture I see online is like a mild controllable case, but hers is so much worse looking. I read they can go septic due to scale rot, and I just have no online pictures to compare to.
TLDR: Would you consider this a severe case? It's definitely not mild, but is it bad or like bad bad?
Backstory:
On Black Friday (November 29, 2024), my mom and I got Twoey (snake). We first saw her a week before and she had a bunch of dirt caked in the affected area. I feared something might be wrong, but she could have just been dirty. She was in shed, and it would just come off. Well when we got her she shed 2 days later, dirt was gone, and this was underneath. I told my friend who worked at the place I got her from and they said she was treated for mites as a precaution and then put in a cage where the substrate was moist about a month ago. So, to my knowledge this is a month old.
Plan:
She is already moved to a sterile cage, paper towels, everything. I'm spraying her 2 times a day with Vetericyn wound spray, and giving her a betadine bath (diluted) once a day, cleaning tub with diluted chlorohexidine everyday. My vet was out this week, next week I'm off when he's not in. So, I'm hoping this can at least do something until I can get her in. It's definitely a dry painful area, cause you can hear the skin wrinkle when she moves.
I figured if anything I can at least have these photos out, so if anyone is in my position, they at least have something to maybe compare to.
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Re: Is this considered SEVERE Scale Rot?
I vote bad, not bad bad. Your plan sounds good, if a bit excessive. I would think that vetericyn once after the betadine bath should be sufficient. I don't think you need to do it twice. I also don't think you need to chlorohexidine the tub daily. Just swap out the paper towels. You don't want your treatment to be unnecessarily stressful.
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Re: Is this considered SEVERE Scale Rot?
Ok, thank you so much! I was scared of doing too little, so I will definitely cut back. I don't want her to have any more added stress.
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