I'm pretty livid right now. I bought an albino female and she was delivered a bit ago...with a raging case of mites. This is the SECOND snake I bought recently who came to me with mites. I even specifically asked this seller to check her and he specifically assured me she's mite-free. And it's bad. Raging. There's no way the pictures he advertised her with were current.
She also has some scale discoloration/cracked/chipped scales. I'm going to take her to the vet, but I thought I'd ask here, too. I didn't notice this with my other snake who has mites, but he's also not albino.
Could this be from the mites? What else could it be? Her underbelly scales look fine, it's just the ones on her back. Scars? The black specs aren't mites themselves, they're browned scales.
(edited to add that these spots did not appear on her in the pictures he posted. I'm hoping they're something that will go away with treatment and a few good sheds?)
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