Quote Originally Posted by Evenstar View Post
Your post has raised a few red flags and I think there are a few questions I can answer for you. I will do my best to help you out. Please keep in mind that no one is here to be critical - this is only intended to help!!



I would make these corrections to your heat and humidity then wait until your snake has shed and monitor carefully to see if the mucus continues. If so, a vet trip is in order immediately.

How are you controlling your temps and humidity?? Do you have a thermostat? If so, what kind is it?

As I said before, this is only intended to help you - you obviously care for your snake very much and I, and everyone else here, just want to make sure you have the best experience with your new buddy that you can possibly have. I hope this helps you!
Well He just shed today! Which is good, just a little bit of his tail skin is still attached, so if that doesn't shed of soon, I will soak him a bit within the next week or so.. I will be giving him a mouse tomarrow evening.

I think he's skinny because I can see his back bone, and when I run my finger down it, I can feel each individual bump almost all the way down to his tail. Then again, he is my first boa, so I don't know if this is normal, just the feeling of his back bone worries me.

I am not using a thermostat, Just a heating pad, though I have noticed as of today that he doesn't want to go on the hot side, so tomarrow I will be covering the heating pad with a towel to hopefully cool down the spot.



The last snake I got was a ball python, when I got her she was VERY sick, he neck was sunken in and she was very thin. I took her to the vet and she had coccidia, I forgot the weight she was but it was bad the vet said. He said to ffed her every two days, well three days after the vet appointment she died, and it broke my heart, even though I only had her for a short time I got very close to her. So this put me off ball pythons (Atleast for now) and I researched a whole lot on other kinds of snakes, and I found red tail boas.

I can't get any pictures of him at the moment, but I will surely try soon. He is a Ghost x Salmon and he is very beautiful, just a little sick right now.

If the mucus doesn't go away within a few days, i will take him to the vet.