Belly scales flaky

[Skiploder]

My BP is a male, 1270 grams. He has not shed since I have had him. His temps have been fine but his humidity has been a bit low, down to 40. I put a larger dish in his cage and gave him a bath today. I am just wondering what it might be. It is only on his belly scales. He has been eating fine and has not been soaking so I don't think it is mites. The scales are flakey like they are shedding, some of them are wrinkled like pruned skin, and some have light brown edges. I took everything out of his tank and put newspaper down and the bowl of water. I took his hides out as well and covered his entire tank with black paper to give him privacy. Does anyone have any ideas on what it may be, or anything else I can do?

Couple of things:

First and foremost, stop bathing your snake. It doesn't need it, doesn't want it and it can have deleterious side effects. Just stop doing it.

Second, without a picture, no one is going to be able to do anything but give you guesses as to what's going on. Having said that - flaky, wrinkled belly scales with brown edging could be a bad sign, or it could be no sign at all.

In the meantime, stop changing things in the enclosure. Stop giving him baths. Stop adding hides, Stop removing hides. Don't put in a blue bowl, or a red bowl or a green bowl...leave the bowl alone. Dial all your parameters in and leave him alone. Be watchful and observant without bothering the animal. See if this is part of the shedding process, or see if his belly gets worse.