Newbie needing help with a baby

[Yvette]

I am new here & just found this site. I have 3 snakes all together here. All in seprate tanks. The first one I bought was a 10 yr. old Desert King, male, my sister's roomate gave use a baby Ball. My boy Friend had him first, then gave him back to me. He is now 2 years old. I recently purchased a 2 month old baby female ball.
I am very familiar with snakes, but am clueless with this baby one. She seems to be having a shedding problem & I am not sure on what to do. My Boy Friend (who's been into reptiles for over 20 yrs.) got me all in a panic now. I was hoping someone could help here? I got her on the 8th of May. She was going into
the blue phase. She did shed some, but not all. My daughter took her out to help her with her shed. My daughter showed me some spots that were small reddish spots. Almost like an indian sunburn.
I called my boy friend who, said my snake has a fungus? I've heard of it, but never seen it before. Someone on another site said it was skin rot. I looked that up on the net & it does not look like that at all. The parts that didn't shed just looks pruney. I have been soaking her. I am so hoping that helps.
Has anyone here ever have a problem shedding? What actually is fungi on a snake? How bad can it get?

TIA,
Yvette

[Schlyne]

Is there any way you can get some pictures of the area up?

[azak323]

I'm taking my BPs to the vet tomorrow for scale rot; i didn't know what it was until yesterday, and because i wasn't treating it right I'm now seeing how bad it can get, and it can definitely get bad. My female BP has a few large open wounds on her belly now that aren't healing, and the surround area is one large red, painful sore. I will post pics eventually, but it can get very bad and be really painful for the snake.

[rabernet]

Pictures would definitely help. If it's a bad shed, if you followed our tutorial on removing stuck shed - she should be fine.

Many times, the first shed with a new owner will be a bad shed as they are acclimating to a new home.

Post some pictures if you can and we'll go from there - and btw

[Yvette]

Thanx for the welcome.
And I will be posting pictures in a bit.

[Stewart_Reptiles]

This is the answer I made on the other forum you posted on

NO MORE SOAKING BP are not meant to soak everyday for that long. "I’ve been bathing her for an hour each day & misting her down."

Provide proper humidity and you will not need to soak your BP this mean having a reliable reading with a DIGITAL HYGROMETER

NO VINEGAR EITHER

Now in the morning you need to make a phone call and make an appointment to an herp vet.

My guess is that your snake shows the beginning of scale rot.

Remove the substrate, replace it with paper towel.

Clean the area with betadine and apply some triple anti-biotic ointment (WITHOUT painkiller)

The vet visit is important depending on the extent of the damage, infection can set in and anti-biotics might be needed so getting the vet to evaluate your BP is important.

Now this is the most likely guess however do you own a DIGITAL thermometer and do you measure your temps at the bottom of the enclosure and do you own a thermostat?

If not this could be a thermal burn if so same as above.

[Yvette]

Well this is her. I hope I did this right?


**edit by dr del**

You had posted the picture correctly but the picture was larger than 800 pixels wide so I changed it to a thumbnail linking to the larger picture. Hope that was ok.

**end edit**

[Yvette]

Sorry so big! Now I need to learn to resize! Owvey!
I did get a picture of her belly. I don't know why it didn't show on my computer? I am very lousy at pictures. I did post on another site. I felt like I was being at bit bashed. I am new to this & want
to help. Not get yelled at. At the moment the vet is not an option. I have 2 proms & one graduation & am even having a hard time with finances for those. I was hopeing there is something I can do at home.
Anyways, Thank you Dr. Del. If you look down towards her tail. All that shinny is the shed. It is coming off very slowly in small peices.

[Yvette]

Nobody? Well, she feed yesturday on 4 pinkies, if that helps?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

Nobody? Well, she feed yesturday on 4 pinkies, if that helps?

Mice? if so pinkies are WAY TOO SMALL for any BP, hatchling are generally started on hoppers and move quickly to adult mice.

You need to feed a prey slightly smaller than girth size one a week.