Help me, please! I've talked to several breeders and Terry who runs the Dixie Reptile show and several vets and none of them have seen anything like this before. My snake's scales are sloughing off. It's not a shed. I mean her scales themselves are sliding off of her body from the tip of her nose to her tail in patches and I can see the skin underneath. It's only along her spine, not on her sides or belly. She's in pain. She's tense and was hissing when I went to (gently!) clean the substrate off of it. She wasn't striking, just hissing in pain. I've had her for two weeks. She has refused food so far, but otherwise was behaving normally. This wasn't going on a few days ago. She's in a tub. Temps are 90 on the warm side and 83 on the cool side, 60% humidity. No mites. I had her in QT already with a few of the other new guys I'd gotten, but she's now separated from them as well. There are no herp vets in my area. Terry called his vet and he seems to not know what it is, either, and is about 2 hours away. I'm afraid a ride that long would stress her even more, so I don't want to drive 4 hours round trip with her if he's not going to be able to help her. I've called every vet in a 100 mile radius and none of them specialize in reptiles or have any idea what could be wrong. They said it could be bacterial, could be fungal, might be contagious, might not be. I don't know what to do! My first sick snake and it's a mystery illness.