thanks for the advice. for cleaning should i just use water and a q-tip, or some sort of soap solution?
and that's a good point about everything showing on lighter snakes, i'm just glad it's just a little poke.
Just some water and some tissue paper or something. When my big ones have something like this or they are covered in poop I just run them under the bathtub faucet at about room tempurature for a few seconds wipe rinse again then not worry about it too much. No soap.