Rough scales coming off like a human scab

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It's really hard to tell without pictures, so once those are uploaded it should make it a lot easier to tell. I'm not super knowledgeable with ball pythons but from the description it almost sounds like stuck shed. Is it similar to stuck shed that it is a covering of the scale or is it the scale itself? If it's the scales themself coming off I wouldguess that it's from a burn because that's the only time I've ever heard of scales peeling off. Do you know the temperature of the hottest part of the enclosure, with a heat gun measuring the surface instead of measuring the ambient temperature?

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Hottest Surface Temp: 33C, which is on the wall outside the heat lamp shown below. Noodle hardly ever goes there, and every for the few times he has climbed the wall there for prolonged periods of time, nothing like this has ever come of it. Technically the hottest temperature in the tank is 150C, but that's at the core of the heat lamp; I can place my whole palm onto the cage surrounding itself and feel no discomfort whatsoever, and noodle's head/neck is far to wide to enter the cage. The heat lamp is 50W and emits infrared which very quickly loses its temperature, which is why the wall is only 33C despite being pretty near. The heat lamp is marketed for reptiles, including snakes. Still, I would be willing to change heat sources immediately if there is any possibility of Noodle somehow still getting a burn.


(The bedding is coconut husk plus sphagnum moss btw).