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I have a small ball python and it got a peace of duckt tape on the side of his neck. Does anyone know what i can do to get it off without hearting it?

Use peanut butter, work it around where the skin sticks to the tape and slowly push the skin off the tape. The natural peanut oil works great to lossen the tape adhesive. Had a similar problem with my hatchling cornsnakes and the peanut butter worked great. Another advantage is peanut butter dries and will just fall off your snake and is less likely to glug your snake's nostrals as oils could. Just make sure your snake is on paper towel till all the peanut butter/tape is gone/removed.

Peanut butter even worked great to remove a rat pup that was stuck on one of those stick traps for mice/rats. The pup escaped and I didn't necessarily want to kill it to capture it (as I was growing them up to get them to small adult size, as the newly weaned size was a bit small for my ball python and some of my other snakes) As I didn't know if a live mouse trap would be big enough, and since I already had the sticky traps, I baited one and the rat pup was caught in it. The peanut butter worked great at removing all that stickiness of the trap and served as a coating for the rest of the tape so the rat wouldn't get more stuck while struggling to get away while I tried to unstick him.
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PHLdyPayne

Cooking oil, either in liquid form or a spray (like Pam), should do the trick.

The Ball Python Bible (the complete ball python by nerd) says to " rub cooking oil on the stuck areas to release the bond of the tape". [qoute]
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Brian n Chrissy

I've always used olive oil and a q-tip Use the q-tip to apply the oil to the specific area you want, this way it doesn't get all over the snake. The peanut butter idea sounds good though. You'ld probably want to use natural peanut butter because its greasier then the brand names that contain a lot of suger and other stuff

>>I have a small ball python and it got a peace of duckt tape on the side of his neck. Does anyone know what i can do to get it off without hearting it?

Guess this is the same as cooking oil though. I used it to free a king snake caught on one of those sticky mouse pads. Have to go slow though and let it work!!