I have a baby Dumeril who was born may 15 of this year. I have had him for 4 weeks.

About two weeks ago he started spending alot of time in his water dish. Starting a week ago, he never would come out of his dish. I changed his water and sure enough there were some mites in the water. There were about 4. I bought PAM locally and the next night I treated his enclosure with it.

When I pulled him out to treat his enclosure I noticed his eyes were opaqe. Also he had a pinkish undertone to his underbelly.

After treating with PAM he went back into his water dish and stayed there over the next couple of days. So last night I took him out and treated him with some mite killer reptile relief. This was safe to spray on his body. After treating him with this he initially went back to his water dish but eventually burrowed into his substrate and hung out there.

I checked on him midday today and he was actually in the process of shedding off his skin.

I just went to check on him and he was back in the water bowl. I took him out and there were several strands of loose sheed. In fact when I picked his him up some came loose in my hands and I peeled quite of bid of skin off him. In his tank there was dry shed from ealrier today.

Did this just not get a good complete shed? I peeled off as much as I could but that is when I noticed on his underside of his head/neck area there is a small patch of white skin that appears to be missing scales.

Could this be caused by scale rot? The patch is less than the size of an erasure of a pencil. Roughly half that size. It is irregular shaped.

I plan on re-treating with PAM once a week and I can spray him again with the reptile spray in two days per its instructions. Not sure what to do with him.

I am now concerned with the missing scales and the fact he has basically lived in his water dish for a little over a week, and then spent allot of time in it a week prior that he may have scale rot or something and that is what took those scales off.

I am a newb to boas and snakes in general.