Rescued BP - is it Pastel?

[rabernet]

If you take a screen top and press it down on your hand and pull your hand out from under it. It will not damage your hand.

What would likely happen is that the ball would lift up the cover and force it's head out. If it got stuck it would pull its self back into the tank, perhaps getting it's neck pinned and stuck from the pressure of the clips, but the cover would not gouge through several layers of the derma. There are several layers that need to be damaged for the scar to appear white instead of black.

Rick

Not going to debate how THAT snake received its scars, but I have a couple animals housed in 40 quart tubs with lids that have a lip that hangs down from the lid - and the snakes squeeze between that lip and the locking lid indention. They have rubbed the color off the scales in what I call "tub rub". Not all snakes housed in this particular tub do this, but two have done it.

So - it is possible to happen from rubbing in the enclosure. I know for a fact that neither of them were burned or injured by prey - I've raised both from babies and watched them actually try to squeeze between this gap and seen that lip running down their neck while they were doing so.