I was browsing around reading up and I came across an article on scale rot. This made me really upset when I noticed it but my ball has some pinkish coloring on his belly. I also noticed he had a single scale that is a dark red. I took some pictures and I just really hope this means he might be about to shed. His last shed was August 10th.

I have Douglas fir bedding in now and it was changed right after his last shed. I have noticed that the humidity has been some what higher recently which worried me more. I was going to switch to aspen soon but now I am thinking, from what I read, I might want to put newspaper in to help lower the humidity.

I constantly check for waste and he always has fresh water.

Here are the pictures, I tried my best but they are not great. The first belly shot I edited some color scales and contrast to help bring out the color so its some what exaggerated. The original picture with no editing follows it.

2 pictures of the strange scale I found on him:





His belly edited to bring out colors:



The original picture: