Ever seen anything like this?

[wRobio]

This very strange thing happened to this little hatchling mojaves scales. Sometime in the past day some patches of his scales seem to have lost their pigment and look a little pinched.






He is in a Freedom Breeder split tub on Eco-carpet (which gets changed weekly) ambient temperature in the room is the low 80s, ambient humidity is at 60% 5 days a week and goes up to around 70% on Monday/Tuesday. He has a basking spot of 88-90 degrees.


I have kept hundreds of BPs in these set-ups and never had a single health issue. The top is powder coated screen. I checked and there are no spots that could injure a snake. It looks kind of like a burn, but his belly is 100% clean and there is nothing for him to burn himself on.

He had a live crawler mouse in with him recently, it didnt quite have it's eyes open. I have seen snakes that got eaten by mouse/rat but I haven't heard of a mouse sucking the pigment out of a snakes scales...that just seems silly.

I'm baffled. Has anyone else seen anything like this?

Thab
Thanks.

[Vypyrz]

I don't think anyone knows how or why that happens but it does occassionally.You are the second member this weekend to have a snake do that. Sometimes the change can be gradual and sometimes it happens during one shed. Usually the color comes back after a few sheds. Here is an old thread on the subject. Hope it helps.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...er-turn...gray

[wRobio]

I should have mentioned, this little guy only hatched 2 weeks ago.