I give upOriginally Posted by Ratikal
Actually this will be his 2nd shed ...2 reasons why the skin is so shiny, I adusted the pic to increase contrast and temp which highlights the warmwwater he was just bathed in while I cleaned his last stool and plug from the tank... Took the sticky s out tho
Don't know if I mentioned before but I do use heatgguns for accurate temps and have a herpstat on the other side of the tank lol I guess a pic is worth a thousand assumptions. Was pretty blown away how crucial people were about the surroundings rather than my question asking opinions about the snake. Next time I hold him during picture time, instead of placing him in the tank and snapping a few pics...
I do have one other question: have you ever heard of rubbing a snake with vegetable oil? The breeder did this before I left and said he does it once a month to protect against mites and procure better sheds? He said if the snake has mites, they will come off in your hand from the vegetable or olive oil...a herp DVM told him about the trick.
There is no amount of photoshop, camera setting, photo editing that can make a snake let alone two (I saw the other animal as well ) look like a pre-shed animal especially without altering the background.
Again you got talked into buying non established animals that have not shed.
As for oil I could also tell you not to use oil because it will lead to scale loss but obviously if you do not listen to what you are being told regarding unestablished animal I doubt you will listen to what I have to say about mite treatment.
Oh and a BP should not be bathed either especially not prior to shed.
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