Skin/Health conditions & treatment

[Spankenstyne]

I know what you're saying in regards to her appearance and would think the same thing if I hadn't raised her myself & know exactly what has gone into her. To put it bluntly she's a beast, a freakish beast haha..
You can only see the skin between the scales in the one pic because I purposely had her stretched around my hand to see the scale rot better. She is thick and quite large overall at approx 42" and weighed in at 510g yet has only been fed roughly equal parts worms & fish for her whole life only twice a week (sometimes only once). Up until a couple of weeks ago she had maybe 4 or 5 pinkies total in approx a 3 year timeframe and gets barely more food per feeding than this male:



She's also quite active too. Her girth is mind boggling to me, and she's also had 3 litters of babies, which should be depleting her. One point though is that she has never been brumated which could very well be more of a factor than I might think, and the plan is for her to brumate this winter.

[Spankenstyne]

To that point though, it is something that I'm working on with her and have been reducing her food intake while trying more rodent in her diet and once weekly feedings for the last few months.

Anyone have a spare tiny treadmill?

[Spankenstyne]

Here's an updated shot of the scale rot. You can see it's healing.



Full body shot, nice Kingsnake... Oh wait... She looks perpetually gravid
The Betadine has also really stained her yellow, she's normally much lighter than this.

[guidofatherof5]

You're doing a great job there Doc.
Thanks for the update.

[ConcinusMan]

Anyone have a spare tiny treadmill?

You could always lean a sheet of glass at an angle and put a pinky at the top. LoL.

[Spankenstyne]

You could always lean a sheet of glass at an angle and put a pinky at the top. LoL.

Haha that just might work

A few updated pics, she just shed this evening & has been making great progress.. Well except for one small thing, she has a small respiratory infection, or at least it looks like it to me. There's a small chance that it's the betadine baths irritating her or even possibly causing it but she's already on the antibiotics as it is and it doesn't seem to be geting any worse. I'm scheduled to see the vet in a day or two anyways and we'll deal with that if it's what I believe it to be.

You can see the throat area has really cleared up & is almost totally healed. One more shed and I expect it to be gone. You can see a few bubbles around her mouth here as well.


One of the main scale rot areas from before, continues to heal up nicely.


The incision site at the vent. The shed is still on this wound mainly due to the staples but peeking under it's looking better & on it's way as well.


Closeup where you can see some bubbles at the mouth. Plus I just love how red the eyes are.


The lumps appear smaller now as well which is a good sign.

[kibakiba]

I'm glad she's getting better, she's a big beauty. She looks very cuddly

[guidofatherof5]

Good news.
When do the staples come out?

[Spankenstyne]

Thanks folks. Steve the staples come out Tuesday.

[RedSidedSPR]

She's big! Glad she's healing up nice