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I posted this at the dumerils forum already....
A few days ago I noticed after my male dumerils shed he was missing some scales on the top of his head and nose. I assumed that he was rubbing his face on the wood to help him shed and got a bit over zealous. Today I noticed after one of my females shed that she had some stuck skin on her heade. I barely rubbed her head, which caused the skin and many of her scales to slough off. I did not pull at the skin at all, so I am in shock!

What could be causing this to occur in both snakes? I have a third dumerils who shed about a month ago, so I am hoping she holds off for a while until I can solve this mystery. Any clue why this is happening? They have shed before, but this the first time they had this problem and the first time they did not have complete sheds. My female came with mites a few months ago when I purchased her, but I have not seen them again since I treated her! Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, I have 30 snakes, and have never seen anything like this! Do you guys think the scales will regrow?

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6.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
5 normal x pastel eggs incubating!
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
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*Amy*

Hey, bud!
Is she eating for you?

She eats a jumbo prekilled rat every other week like clock work. I think she would like to eat more often but I am trying to keep her from becoming overweight. The scale loss just showed up a few days ago, I never noticed anything like this before. Both of the "screwy scaled" snakes are continuously soaking themselves eventhough I see no evidence of mites. I think I am going to treat them again for mites just to be safe...maybe they just itched their heads too much on the plexiglass!
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6.14 Normal ball pythons
1.0 Pastel ball python
5 normal x pastel eggs incubating!
1.0 Plains Garter
0.1 Rosy boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan Sand Boa
1.1 Anery Kenyan Sand Boa
0.1 Leucistic Texas Rat
1.2 Dumeril's Boa
-----My list is too long, so I'll stop here!
*Amy*