Quote Originally Posted by serpents-prey View Post
i need some answers.
I'm somewhat speechless, but I'll do my best to give you what answers can be given under the circumstances.

The easy one: Newspaper is fine. No need to change it unless it's dirty...in which case fresh newspaper is still fine. Paper towels are fine, too. Whatever you prefer.

As for the rest...nobody can tell you how to fix your temps if you don't even know what they are. If you can't get out of the house to keep an established vet appt...then I'm going to assume you can't get out of the house to go buy a thermometer, either. But if you have ANY sort of digital thermometer, or even those little sticky dials ....anything...that can give you an idea of what the temps in your cage are...you need to USE them. If you have any of those old sticky dials...just lay 'em right on the paper under or near the hides...leave 'em for awhile, and then check to see what they say. Hopefully they won't be tooo far off the mark.

Especially for a sick snake, you need to get those temps UP...and yet ensure that the surface he is lying on is not hot enough to burn. You really need to have the entire tank warmed up to 80-85 degrees, with a warmer spot in the low 90s.

Right at this moment, humidity is not your most serious concern. Soaking the snake or wetting down the bedding in an attempt to increase the humidity are only going to make things worse.

The triple-antibiotic should be fine, so long as it doesn't have any pain reliever added to it.

I've never heard of mite spray causing this sort of damage. You don't say exactly what you used, so no one can really even guess what you might have done with it.

I've also never heard of mites causing anything that looks like what you've shown in the pictures...but if the infestation is severe enough, they CAN make a snake very, very sick and eventually kill it. So maybe they can also contribute to a weakened immune system that would lead to the scale rot and a thinning of the skin....

I'm just guessing....and really, that's all any of us here can do at this point. Even if we had a vet on staff here, he/she could only guess at what's going on without actually seeing the snake in person.

We can't fix the severe husbandry issues over the Internet, either. All we can do is point them out and do our best to offer ideas for at least finding a temporary fix. It's YOUR snake and your responsibility to use your own brain to figure out how to apply the advice you've been given or come up with your own ideas if all of ours get shot down for whatever reasons you can come up with.