Here is a link to a post about this disease. An excerpt:

(5) For L. zonata the disease is usually fatal. Some individuals do

eventually "shed out" of the skin disorder but the partial paralysis often

remains at some level. Providing moist conditions seems to help increase

the probability of survival possibly by just preventing death due to

dehydration and allowing the snake's own immune system to eventually

overcome the disease. Individuals that survive the disease do not appear to

be contagious.

It should be noted that L. zonata are highly stressed when conditions

become too hot and dry. We have noticed several individuals that acquired a

skin condition very similar to that described above minus the paralysis and

marred eye spectacles. The skin condition in these individuals cleared up

after moisture and cooler conditions were provided and the snakes completed

one or two shed cycles. We do not know if this alternative skin disorder is

also zonata disease but just in a less virulent form, but the temperature

and moisture conditions in the cage do seem to be related, possibly for

both cases.

I'm hoping Peter54 can save his babies. One gets attached to these little creatures so easily.


zonata disease?

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