Hello everyone.
Forewarning, this is a lot. I am a new ball python owner (about 2 months now) and I really enjoy having her. She’s a leucistic blue eyed ball. I bought her from a breeder who was legit and she came in perfect condition.

I did a ton of research before buying her and I really felt like my terrarium was perfect. It wasn’t. I started off all wrong. I had too big of an enclosure, my humidity wasn’t right, I thought I knew I was doing but I definitely didn’t. I still feel like I don’t. She is about ~235~ grams and is about 7 months old. I finally befriended someone who knew a lot about snakes and he helped me a lot with getting her a new enclosure with the correct humidity. I had her in her new terrarium (a 10 gallon), CHE lamp on top, coco soft chip bedding, one hide one water bowl, for about two weeks and she loved it. She stayed hidden all the time, would only come out for about 20 minutes a night just to get some water. She finally ate a frozen thawed! This was something I was really struggling with because the breeder fed her live before.


However a few days after she finally ate a frozen thawed (a month and a half into me having her), I took her out and I noticed a small infection on her belly. Probably about half the size of a pinky nail. Long story short the Betadine solution treatment and water wasn’t working as fast as I thought it should’ve been, so I took her to the vet and he gave me a different topical medication. He didn’t feel it was serious enough to give her anabiotic shots. He noticed it was healing.


If you’re still reading this - thank you - but I’m just unsure of what to do. I need her to shed to get this infection off and to give me some freaking peace of mind but I need the humidity right to do that. I was trying to keep the humidity down for the infection to heal but the vet said I was good to put her back into the humid environment after two weeks total of treatment because he believes the infection is not active anymore. I had to feed her another live because she refused a frozen thawed. I’ve had to handle her EVERY DAY for the past two weeks because of this infection (to treat her) which I know she hates and I feel awful because I know she’s unhappy. The vet said to keep the treatment going until she sheds but who knows when she is gonna shed!!! The only symptom she showed that she was in shed was that she hissed at me when I picked her up. Her eyes and skin looked normal (she shed a month into me having her).


I have asked my snake friend a million and one questions, so I don’t want to bother him again. I have found so many different things online on what I should/shouldn’t be doing, I just don’t know what to believe. She is all white so I notice every single blemish on her and it makes me go crazy. OH by the way she bit my ear randomly before I did a treatment on her. That happened a litter over a week ago??


Can someone help?