*sigh*...... Well, no good news here. I just got a call from b/f. The blood just passed away. Its pretty upsetting. Idk what to think. B/f is REALLY upset. I told him to give me the guys phone number and I called him. I told him about the skin condition and he told me "yah, it was shedding". Pffffft! Im fairly new to snakes, but Ive seen my boyfriends snakes shed numerous times and Im not totally "snake illiterate". I was like "Umm NO, that was not a shed". And i explained to him the condition of the scales and how they were all puffed out in places and literally falling off. I proceeded to ask him how he was going to make this right. (being that b/f is literally falling to peices at this point and Im ticked!) He rattled off a few snakes that he would give him in exchange, but all of them were adults and we would rather not deal with all that is involved in taking in an adult with not knowing how it was raised and so forth. I asked him if he would be getting any babies in and we came to the agreement that he would give us a female baby blood in place of the one we had lost. So Geeeez! Now we have to wait on a baby and hopefully it will be in good health. Being we are both new to Bloods, I will definately be back here when she arrives. Just wanted to thank all of you for your responses to my previous post!