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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by alice40604345
How long ago did he shed? I notice this with my lighter colored snakes right before they shed sometimes.
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by ReptileRant
How long ago did he shed? I notice this with my lighter colored snakes right before they shed sometimes.
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Thank you! He shed two weeks ago. When he shed, I only spot one or two brown dots there, no scale was peeled up, now it gets more. It happened before but I always thought it's just because he rub his head..
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by alice40604345
Thank you! He shed two weeks ago. When he shed, I only spot one or two brown dots there, no scale was peeled up, now it gets more. It happened before but I always thought it's just because he rub his head..
Ok, do you use a screen lid on your cage and do you have anything rough in his cage? Also if you feed live a rat may have scratched him.
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by ReptileRant
Ok, do you use a screen lid on your cage and do you have anything rough in his cage? Also if you feed live a rat may have scratched him.
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I use sterilite cage and I don't think there's something very hard or sharp there, and I feed them frozen rat, so I feel so weird.
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by alice40604345
I use sterilite cage and I don't think there's something very hard or sharp there, and I feed them frozen rat, so I feel so weird.
Hmm, yea that is strange. What type of substrate do you use?
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by ReptileRant
Hmm, yea that is strange. What type of substrate do you use?
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Thanks! I use reptile prime.
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by alice40604345
Thanks! I use reptile prime.
Ok, well just make sure it isn’t to wet. It should be somewhat damp, but not soaked. There is a very small possibility that it is scale rot, but that normally happens on the snakes belly.
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Originally Posted by ReptileRant
Ok, well just make sure it isn’t to wet. It should be somewhat damp, but not soaked. There is a very small possibility that it is scale rot, but that normally happens on the snakes belly.
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Thank you so much! So I don't need to worry about like parasite or some inner disease right? The cage makes the humidity always around 70%. I thought it may be kind of too high, but since they shed and eat well so I didn't lower it. Maybe I should drill more holes?
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Re: Help~my ball python neck scale does not look right
Mine gets this sometimes when he starts to grow out of his hide. He starts lifting it with his head instead of exiting the hole a quick hide upgrade and shed solves the issue for me.
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