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I just received a baby blood from my brother. I noticed the skin on the bottom of its head and neck was real saggy and wet. When I rub my fingers down the skin I push more water out. I dont know if this describes the situation well enough. Basically, the skin is saggy and soaked and somehow holding water. Could this be from too much humidity in its previous enclosure? Will it eventually "fix" itself? My humidity levels are around 65% and there is a water bowl, but the enclosure is definitely not wet. I have three older bloods and have never had this problem.

Sounds like your snake has a case of respritory infection. The fluid drainage and buildup is pretty much a tell tale sign. If its already building up that large an amount of fluid in its throat its definately time to take a visit to the vet!!! In the mean time you can up the temps to about 88 ambient and lower the humidity along with regular cage cleaning and switching the substrate to newspaper. Good luck with your little guy. If you need any more help let us know.

Jordan
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"It's my snake, I trained it, so I'm going to eat it!" - Mad Max, The Road Warrior

Hey,
I don't know from not looking at the blood, but from what I can tell reading your post, is, that it could possibly a shed that has not be removed and has been retained and is soaked or water logged just under the old skin. I could be wrong, but this is what I can read from your description and if this is what it is then yes, it will shed out and fix it self. However, it would also help us if you got some pictures of the area to show.
-Angel
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In life you can fall many times, but you're only a failure, if you don't try to get back up!
Evil Canevil

my blood had water under its skin to but it was right before a shed. i thought it was because of him soaking, ipulled off the skin b/c i didnt whant him to get infeted but now his new scales are ealy messed up. do u think the scales will return to normal