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Guinness my FWC may need help. At first I thought he was shedding. Unfortunately this appears not to be the case. There are very small white spots all over his body. It looks like the salt water fish disease velvet. If you can shed Any light on the subject please help.
Thank You In Advance,
Brendan

Consider checking closely for snake mites or other external parasites as they are often correlated with a dusty white snake.

Does the skin look intact? (as opposed to abrasions, ulcers, cuts, sores ect)
How does the rest of your snake look? Dehydrated, skin folds, losing weight, still eating, acting normal?

If no other symptoms I would begin with reassessing the husbandry. Consider what temps you have, the humidity, substrate, and perhaps note anything that may have brought in fungus or parasites.

If no improvement after any changes you've made, or the next shed, then I would proceed to your vet clinic and see what advice he has after a proper exam.

Good luck

He is not losing weight or dehydrated, no external parasites, and I have not tried to feed him since this began because I thought he was shedding, which I hope he is and I'm just being paranoid. But I don't want to take a risk with my baby.

he shed today and looks perfect. the best kind of alarm, a false one.

Awesome to here he's all fine