Thank you for reading this,
I have a 4 year old male boa (about 6ft long) who has suddenly developed about a dozen sores along his back. They appeared within a week while I was away.
He is housed in a 5'x3'x3' vivamium with a spotlight and heat mat. The heat mat is on the back wall and the spot is on a dimming thermostat, so burns are unlikely. The pattern of the sores is also not what one would expect from a burn.
I have taken him to a "specialist" exotics vet who was not able to identify the cause but proscribed a course of injected antibiotics.
I believe that diseases such as salmonella can cause scale problems, however he has always been housed alone and has only ever eaten rats so salmonella seems unlikely.
I have four snakes in total. A yellow rat, a western hog-nose, and two boas. None of the others are showing any signs of ill health.
I would really appreciate any advise on what this is, what could have caused it and appropriate steps to nurse it back to health.
Many thanks,
