Quote Originally Posted by Vypyrz View Post
Sometimes Betadine and Neosporin without painkiller can help, but if it doesn't get better or continues to get worse, a vet trip would be in order. I was reading something a while back that was talking about some scale rot that can be caused by an internal infection, in which case antibiotics would definitely be needed. Hopefully someone who knows more about this will chime in...
Can't access my information at the moment, but I know exactly what you are talking about. This form of "belly rot" is actually a sign of when the animal's blood goes septic from a bacterial infection inside the body (usually a rodent bite or some invasive injury is the cause) In this case, the brown around the edges of the white belly scales resembles the beginning to belly rot but is actually the end stages of the progress of the illness of the snake. They do not live long after the brown shows up.

Will post more info, if no one else does, later tonight.