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I have a glass terrarium and i use a heat pad the kind for humans with three tempreature selections high med low tonight i noticed that my snake (ball python) had burried himself so he was in contact with the glass and the heat pad was set on high i took him out and his belly was pink. It kinda looks like the color before a shed but a little darker and seems to be getting lighter now that i removed him. I put a thermometer on the glass and it read 125 degrees f he seems to be doing fine im just concerned if he is burnt and I want to know how to tell if he's burnt and how to treat it. Thanks for any help

"I have a glass terrarium and i use a heat pad the kind for humans with three tempreature selections high med low tonight i noticed that my snake (ball python) had burried himself so he was in contact with the glass and the heat pad was set on high i took him out and his belly was pink. It kinda looks like the color before a shed but a little darker and seems to be getting lighter now that i removed him. I put a thermometer on the glass and it read 125 degrees f he seems to be doing fine im just concerned if he is burnt and I want to know how to tell if he's burnt and how to treat it. Thanks for any help"

How are you measuring the temps? Go to wal-mart or somewhere like that or a hard ware place and get an indoor outdoor digi thermometer with an out door probe. Put the probe on the inside of the cage RIGHT OVER the heating pad. turn it down to med. if it isn't staying in the right temps go to wal-mart or hardware place and get a lamp dimmer. Put the heating pad on high, hook the heating pad up to a lamp dimmer, and turn it down to about the middle, after a few hours check the temps and if needed turn it up or down.

The HOTTEST a BP should get to is about 95 degrees. Ball pythons sometimes burrow, so you have to make sure that it gets NO HOTTER than this.

If it does blister up you should take it to a vet, there is no way of telling how deep the burn went.

And take this as a learning expierence.
And do some more research on the snake, on any animal before getting them.

all so, does he have a place to go to cool off, a hide on the cool side? Snakes will most often chose security over comfort.
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Hmmm... I would watch it closely and apply some polysporin to the "burnt" areas daily as a precaution. If it blisters, you should take it to a vet... Good luck.
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