Underweight rescue ball python help.

[Bogertophis]

Thank you all for your responses. I it seems my original schedule may have been a little ambitious so I'll drop it back to one adult mouse treated with the Nutribac stuff every 7 days till its appointment.

It also appears that Waffles did not actually have stuck eye caps. After its bath its eyes looked a ton clearer. What looked like cloudy lines separating the eye from the stuck shed cleaned up and I can actually see its pupils now. I tried wiping its eyes gently with a cloth anyway but could get nothing to come off and a day later the cloudy lines have still not come back. Could this have been a dehydration issue.

As for @goingpostal question about why I'm taking it to my vet, I have a fairly good exotics vet near me that is pretty reasonably priced for their normal appointments (emergency appointments on the other hand not so much). I am also fairly new to keeping ball pythons so I am unsure of what all Illness to look out for with a rescue. I am confidant in my normal husbandry to keep them healthy and can even take care of things like an infected wound without much of an issue but I am not confidant in my abilities to diagnose much else. I also plan on having the vet show me how to either pop or probe it to determine its sex since I have had no experience doing this.

Thanks again for all your help and advice.

-on the revised feeding schedule. BTW- don't bother feeding him when he clouds up (goes into a shed cycle). Even if he's willing to eat then, it can cause problems with a stuck shed, because both shedding and digestion require good hydration (they use up water in the snake's body). Many snakes (even those not underweight) may have trouble with "multi-tasking" both functions.

I'm glad if he didn't actually have stuck eye-caps, & yes, it's possible & likely that dehydration caused lines (fine wrinkles) in his eyes that appeared to be left-over eye-caps from a previous shed.
For that reason (& because snakes in the wild don't have "room service" & don't eat when in shed anyway) that I'd advise not feeding him when he's in shed, no matter how eager you are for him to gain weight. A snake's body doesn't regain good body weight OR hydration quickly, so just be patient. Eating while in shed will likely result in a stuck shed for this snake in the foreseeable future.

You're lucky to have a good exotic vet nearby. And from your intelligent questions, I'd say he's already in good hands.