Pink areas on my snakes belly

[Adam Chandler]

Both tanks have a accurate thermometer.

From the pictures it looks like it may be a small minor burn.
Just curious, what kind of thermometer are you using?
For your warm side are you measuring the temperature directly on the glass over the UTH?

[sandersnd44]

Accurite from wal-mart. And the probe is on the hot spot directly on the bottom of the tank.

[sandersnd44]

Ogdentrece that is what I was thinking. Not technically a " burn" but discoloration from over exposure to a tad bit to much heat. Turned heat down to 90% last night. Hopefully there will be an improvement today.

[sandersnd44]

Lol degrees notbpercent

[ogdentrece]

Ogdentrece that is what I was thinking. Not technically a " burn" but discoloration from over exposure to a tad bit to much heat. Turned heat down to 90% last night. Hopefully there will be an improvement today.

Yeah, I won't really call it a minor burn like Adam has, its more like when we use heat treatment and it gets flushed because of the heat. I think its similar to that, since my snakes pretty much lost the pinkish colouring after the heat spike. They won't get burned at those temperatures (they are exposed to those temperatures when we handle them) but prolonged periods of time would not be healthy. And they won't be able to digest well at high temps either.

[Jessica Loesch]

Yeah, I won't really call it a minor burn like Adam has, its more like when we use heat treatment and it gets flushed because of the heat. I think its similar to that, since my snakes pretty much lost the pinkish colouring after the heat spike. They won't get burned at those temperatures (they are exposed to those temperatures when we handle them) but prolonged periods of time would not be healthy. And they won't be able to digest well at high temps either.

Wait, how are they exposed to 98 degree temps when we handle them? Our core body temp is 98.6, not our skin. Or do you mean taking them outside?

[kitedemon]

98 will not burn a snake. It takes longer periods of over 100 to do that the problem is snakes cannot regulate temps so when too hot of too cool the digestion shuts down. It is questionable that at 98 a ball could completely digest food.

OP to me it just looks like a young ball with semi translucent scales on the belly. I don't think it looks out of the ordinary. I believe you are looking at the liver, the organs are much closer to the surface than in people.

Accurites are not different from other cheap thermometers they all use a resistive sensor and the slop in manufacturing gives an accuracy range of 4 degrees (2 up 2 down)


They typically are somewhere inside this range, unless you alter the electrical resistance like adding more wire to the probe of getting something that has salt or ammonia on the probe (pee).

I guess it depends on what your idea of accurate is. For me 0.5ºF up or down is the end of accurate and the beginning of inaccurate. You get what you pay for, accurate is not going to be cheap. ( under 75$)

[sandersnd44]

Kite demon that might be it. He is a young snake 1 -2 months old. And the pink area has definite edges( edges are not jagged and random like with a burn or rash.) thanks for putting my mind at ease.

[sandersnd44]

I know the thermometer are cheap but to me 2 degrees either direction probably won't be that big of a difference if it's reading 93 degrees.

[kitedemon]

No problem. burns are on the surface just like you burn so the question is does it look like it is a surface thing or under inside the snake it is hard to tell from photos you need to decide that for yourself. If you think it is a surface thing it is time for a visit to a vet or knowledgeable person in your area. If it seems to be under the skin and scales like a red pea in a white balloons it is likely organs you are seeing.

I like 92 as a max and often set to 91 or 90 as it keeps things well with in normal temps even in case of thermometer error. I have a good thermometer (lab grade) but use the cheapest ones I can find and buy 5 and check them against each other usually 3 will be very close with one off a bunch and one off some. I get rid of the poor ones and use the best two and the third as a back up. I toss them when they go off. (8 months they seem to go screwy.) I am admittedly OCD as I test all of them every 6 months...