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This "dent" on it's head oozes fluid. It's been 45 days since the fight and bite. The RN just regurgitated an Anole, but did eat since the attack. Will the dent clear-up?

no personal experience with this but any time any of the snakes I've been handling or maintaining habitats for start oozing liquids out of places they shouldn't it means a trip to the vet. Most likely it will need some sort of reptile-friendly antibiotic if you want it to live. It's obviously infected.

Don't do anything until Mike posts in here though

Learn your lesson about keeping snakes together? I'm sure lots of people have been through similar experiences for very similar reasons and it's a harsh way to learn that some species don't play well with others or even their own species.

Good luck!

It "oozes fluid"? That doesn't sound good, at all. That sounds pretty unusual.
The "dent" will most likely clear up after the snake sheds a couple times.

I hope you're not keeping the snakes together still.
A ringneck, will gladly eat another ringneck, especially if it smells like a prey item in the enclosure.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.kingpinreptiles.com
^ Updated 11/29

I thought cohabitation would work with the RN's if they were fed at different times. Ooz was the wrong word to use Mike. There was a drop of fluid in that spot, I assume it came out of the crack in the head scale. I'll keep an eye on the spot, thanks for your help.

With ringnecks you can't really feed them at different times...

Example 1.

You try to feed one snake, with both snakes in the enclosure. Who's to say the snake not being fed, won't try to eat anyways? Ultimately leading to a fight for food.

Example 2.

You take out the snake that is not feeding. And feed the other in the enclosure. And then place it's companion back in the enclosure after. Now it smells like the prey item in there. So, once again what if the snake that didn't eat, is hungry, it smells food, sees it's "friend" moving, thinks it's prey, there's another feeding accident.

Honestly.
I've kept a lot of ringneck snakes together.
With southern ringneck snakes, are basically the ONLY feeding accidents I have witnessed.
For some reason southern ringnecks are the sub-species that are always hungry, and anything that smells like prey, is prey.
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Mike
KingPin Reptiles Inc.
www.kingpinreptiles.com
^ Updated 11/29

I posted a picture of my RN chewing on an Aloe plant after it missed an Anole on Oct. 2, Close Call?.

The plant hasn't recovered, the chewed end is flat with brown spots where the rear teeth pushed in...........

Thanks for the help, Happy Holidays to all.