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mike_panic
at Sun Mar 19 16:27:17 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by mike_panic ]
hello my friend. I have been breeding colubrids for the last ten years . I'm pretty sure that is scale rot from excessive moisture in his enclosure. Especially since you said you use newspaper. Completely disinfect his enclosure, take out his water dish(im assuming its big enough for him to soak in)and replace with a very small bowl of fresh water, one thats small enough where he cannot get his body into but he can only drink from it. If he knocks it over, take the water out all together and offer it once a day or every other day for a little while. Use fresh aspen for a few sheds until he sheds out the bad scales. The infection should dry up without really needing to treat it with anything. Thats one of the very few downfalls I found with using newspaper. I kept 150 or so adult corns at a time and never had that problem with aspen. To cut costs and keep the wife off of my back(from tracking aspen throughout the house) I switched over to newspaper. You have to be very very clean with it, and change it immediately when the snake deficates or urinates. Best of luck and I hope I helped you some. Mike Panichi
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RE: not a boa but!!!!!!!!!!HELPPPPP - mike_panic, Sun Mar 19 16:27:17 2006