I brought home a 2yr old BP, Sam, this past Sunday. He's just over 2ft and looks very unhealthy. He spent the past year and a half in a room at a YMCA child care center as the "class pet" with little to no attention. After volunteering there, I spent the last 6months or so trying to convince his owner to let me take him because she hadn't a single clue how to care for a snake. She knew how much I love Sam so she finally let me take him because I was the only person who ever handled him. He's such a sweetheart though. :/

When I brought him home I immediately began improving his habitat. The humidity was at 20% and he hadn't had a heat source for nearly a week. Took about a day or so but I managed to stabilize the humidity at around 70% and the warm side of the tank around 90degrees and the cool side around 80degrees during the day, slightly cooler at night. His water bowl had algae growing in it and the substrate was hamster bedding. I scrubbed his bowl and put down newspaper, and also put a larger water container to soak in.

He's been shedding since before Sunday in small pieces and I've tried to wet him down, he refused a warm soak in a plastic tub and I didn't want to force him and stress him out more. He also seems very under weight. He's very wrinkly when he coils and isn't round at all, more flat, as though his spine shows. But I didn't want to feed him until he has settled in. Right now he is laying half in his hideaway and half out with his head out toward the cool side, I'm not sure if I should be concerned.

Sorry for this being so long, but I love this snake and I'm very worried about him, he was mistreated for so long I'm unsure whether or not I'll be able to get him healthy.