Congrats on your first snake, he's very nice-looking, & apparently very lucky that you came along when you did. I've taken in a near-dead bearded dragon
many years ago under similar circumstances, the idiot owner said he'd set him loose in the desert if I didn't take him (apart from being an illegal thing to do,
and terribly unethical, that's just what struggling local wildlife needs is exposure to who-knows-what-exotic germs?) so of course I then proceeded to save a
bearded dragon, even though snakes are actually where most of my experience is (& was then too).
That's awful about that guys corn snake...it sounds like he had internal pain that made him bite at himself...possibly from internal parasites (worms) so do get
a fecal done on this snake, even though his good body weight suggests that he has no such issue going on right now.
I'll have to leave the "what morph is it?" guesses to others here as that's not my "area", but just wanted to welcome you...& commend you for helping this
sweet ball python escape a bad owner.
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