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has any one seen this before on a jungle carpet before he is going to shed? i noticed this today and tried to take a photo of his back. "safari" is @4 years old. male. @7-8 foot. very mellow with handling. takes f/t rats so its not a bit from live food. i don't feed live to any of my snakes. i just want to know if i should be doing something or just let him to his thing when he sheds. the thing is we are heading out of town this weekend an he is due to shed any day. GRR!! so unless he sheds by morning he'll be on his own till monday. any ideas of what or how this happened?

the area in questions is pretty much in the middle of the photo. you can see some scales raised with shed getting ready to come off? i dont' know. also i was misting him a bit so he looks a little wet.

while i was out of town. it was a perfect shed. he still has these areas like this. i'm thinking now its blisters from misting him before he was going to shed and he was setting under his heat lamp and got some burns??? thats my guess. should i take him to vet? leave him alone? the vet i want to go to istn' there till next week. so i guess i'm going to wait and see right now if it gets better on its own. NO....the lights are not inside his enclosure but i have a big branch he hangs out on up near the light. i've misted him in the past and never had this problem.

can anyone give advise??

I'd definitely keep a close eye on it, and get it out of a room if housed with other snakes to start. If it doesn't improve on it's own before your vet is back, I'd definitely take it in to get it checked out.

A buddy of mine had an issue with some sort of mold that looked similar to that, not exactly, but similar that spread to other snakes in his collection fast. He ended up loosing I think 2-3 snakes because of it...

//Todd