Ok, here it goes. A customer came into my friends shop today with a 6 foot Burmese. It just shed out 2 days ago. It now has approximately 20-40 white 1/2-inch "spots" on it. The customer was worried about his snake. He purchased this animal as a CH from my friend about a year ago. I'll see if I can post some pics of these spots, they are rather interesting. They do not occur on the underside of the snake nor on the head. Their is a total loss of pigmentation in these areas and the Burmese looks similar to some of the calico retics I've seen but not that drastic. The spot does seem like blistering might have caused them as a couple of them looked a little bit "raw". We reviewed his husbandry and everything seems up to par. There were no blisters prior to shedding as their were no spots. The scales are not damaged. I am sure any burns or bacterial infections did not cause it. I recommended getting some scrapings with looked at via a vet to see if it might be fungal? If he sheds out again with more white "patches" I think it might be something similar to the calico corn Tim Rainwater was working with. Any ideas? I will try to get some pics.
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Justyn

Intense Herpetoculture

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• Calico Burmese? - Justyn, Thu Jun 26 23:28:12 2003
• Hmmmm... - hades-raptor, Fri Jun 27 00:46:50 2003
• Er.. here is the picture.. - hades-raptor, Fri Jun 27 00:48:00 2003
• RE: Hmmmm... - Justyn, Fri Jun 27 01:05:05 2003