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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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