One of my Pythons escaped and somehow got tar on her belly. What is the safest way to remove it?
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getting tar off of snake's skin
catfisher79
Oct 27, 2005 11:31 AM
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PHWyvern
Oct 30, 2005 07:59 PM
>>One of my Pythons escaped and somehow got tar on her belly. What is the safest way to remove it?
I know with sticky glue traps, using creamy peanut butter gets it off pretty good and you don't have to worry about chemicals harming the snake. Rub the peanut butter over the tar and into the crevice where it meets the skin.. put the snake into an empty container with just paper towels and let it sit for 20 minutes then brush off any dried peanut butter and see if you can start to peel the tar back a little.. then apply fresh peanut butter into the new crevice you made between the tar and the skin.. keep repeating that whole process til you get it all off. Usually as you get a large enough section peeled back you can use scissors to cut that bit off to keep it from resticking to the snake. The same process works with veggie oil only with the oil it's a bigger mess and gets on everything the snake touches in the container and possibly can get into the mouth or nose whereas the peanut butter pretty much stays put...the peanut butter is also thicker and tends to stay where put rather than slide off like the oil too.
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