I rescued another ball python about 3 days ago. She's a wonderful 1200 gram female normal, and absolutely sweet. Her previous owner was terrible, and I'll tell you why...For the first few days she was with me, I kept her in a quarantined room with just a hide box, a waterdish, and paper towel as substrate. I let her settle in for a few days, then offered her food. She gladly took an adult rat. Today I took a good look at her and noticed she definitely has mites. I let her soak in warm water for a few minutes today to hopefully drown some mites and maybe sooth her skin. I couldn't get to the store to get mite treatment as the stores closed early before I noticed the mites. She wasn't a fan of the bath, and I soon found out why. I was inspecting her after her bath and checked out her belly, only to notice she was badly burned and the tip of her tail seemed rotted and scabby. It looks like scale rot on the tail and a thermal burn on the belly. Does anyone know what I can do to sooth her burns and scabs?Poor thing.
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