HELP! pink belly on my new bp

[sho220]

yes, the vet and the reptile store we purchased him from said that a warm side of about 90/95 degrees and a cool side of about 80 degrees was necessary but not to use heat rocks or under tank heat mats for risk of burning him.. and humidity of about 50-60% normally and increased when during shed..

Okay...good luck with him.

[srking1993]

would you recommend a different heat source? or possibly more than just the one bulb?

i'm still learning here.. I'd love all the advice I can get.

[sho220]

would you recommend a different heat source? or possibly more than just the one bulb?

i'm still learning here.. I'd love all the advice I can get.

It depends on your setup and where he's housed. I prefer belly heat, either an Under Tank Heater (UTH) or heat tape like flexwatt, connected to a good thermostat. That, along with keeping the ambient room temp warm, maintains a good heat gradient. But that's in a spare room dedicated to my snakes. I prefer belly heat to other heat sources as it's supposed to aid in digestion.

Using tanks can make it difficult to maintain proper heat and humidity levels. Humidity levels are especially difficult to maintain when using a bulb as a heat source as it tends to dry out the air. The dry winter months compound it even more. That can lead to bad sheds and increased risk of respiratory infections.

[KMG]

Do you have a IR temp gun? If not, what are you using? Using a probe thermometer or a stick on thermometer will not give an accurate temp of the hotspot from the lamp. If your only monitoring the ambient temps and your hot side is in the nineties I would bet your hotspot is over 100.

Like Sho said most of us here use a uth with a proper tstat. Using this method you can have a hotspot of 88-90 and keep the ambient temps at 78-80. The less heat you need to provide with a bulb the less humidity you kill.

[CORBIN911]

Well i asked because unregulated hot spots leads to The BAD kind of pink belly! (burn)

As KMG said, with those lil dinky thermometers they are never super accurate, be good to get a IR temp gun, aswell as a bulb without a thermostat itself can overheat with unregulated temp because it does not take in consideration of your room temp.

[srking1993]

My youngest just shed. (:

[KMG]

Is this the one you took to the vet?

[vangarret2000]

If sounds and a pink belly were the only thing that worried you the vet most likely made you pay to treat it for an RI when it was unnecessary. Pink belly is a sign of shedding which is normal and some sounds can be mDe that are unrelated to an RI. If there weren't any bubbles or mucus showing IMO the vet got you to pay for some unneeded treatment.

[BiggBaddWolf]

I agree I think the vet charged you for unnecessary medicine!!!

[CORBIN911]

Always try to call vet ask for a Refund, sometimes they will.


I Took in my one hedge hog who had symptoms of cancer, and i told them this and he was like a dead fish and cold, i asked to put him down (50$) he says NO NO NO this is just a lung infection, we can treat it blah blah blah, He then gave me 3 options

1) Cheap- Have medicin to treat (150$)
2) inexpensive- Get medacine, Take x-Rays and Hydrate by injection or w.e ($439)
3) Expensive- MEdacine, Xray,Hydrate,Stay over night, ($700)


Well i do love animals so i said shoot, lets go for #2 maybe ill stop his suffering and help him recover So they did all this said yup after a week of meds hell be fine, They gave him first med (syringe into mouth, sure its easy when hes half dead and not balling up, I couldn't imagine doing if he was healthy and feisty) end restult is i got him home, put a old sneka heating bad, under his cage with a rehostat to keep at a toasty 85, within 3 hours of being home he passed away, Now im out 400$ for something I knew was pointless to do but i did it because the vet sales pitched it pretty much and trying to guilt me by saying "you really wanna put him down without giving him time to fight"..... Well next day i busted in the door and let him know. For trying to make me feel "bad" but end result he gave me a full refund, on everything but the medicine!

Sadly many vets now, are there for Profit and not health of animals. Under closer observation of the xray i wasnt able to see at first you could see the cancerous tumor between his stomach/spine....