Meet Aphrodite

[kibakiba]

Well, you know, he has to power up that super biting attack of his. He cant just keep biting and biting constantly. He seems to look up at me with his mouth open when he cant bite just yet. "I'll get you in a minute or too! Just... Sit still. Don't move and let me rest before I nibble on that finger of yours!"

[kibakiba]

Hades ripped the scar open a little on his mouth. There was some blood on the care fresh. I've been putting ointment on it and it's healing up really fast. Do snakes scale grow back? I'm asking this because he had two scales missing off his lip when I caught him. (I counted his scales on both sides, and only two were missing on the injured side) And now, it's mostly healed with one scale missing, and what looks to be a new lip scale. It's white, shaped like the lip scales and doesn't rub off when ointment is put on his lip with a qtip.

[guidofatherof5]

I do believe the grow back but it is a slow process. Happens over many sheds.
Here's a interesting read on scales.
Snake scales - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[RedSidedSPR]

Yikes, hope it heals up...

[kibakiba]

Hades hasn't shed at all. I did notice his little scarred area starting to get smaller. I figured maybe some skin was growing over it. Upon close inspection (close enough to have my nose and lip bitten by him ) it was an actual scale. He's a really healthy little snake, despite a little bit of muscular weakness(maybe he's making up for that in his nips, hehe ) and a very skinny body.

[kibakiba]

Hades ate for the first time in my care. I was feeding my frogs some cut up night crawler, which they hate and I had a lot left over, so I decided to feed my smaller babies and while I was holding Azul (he was eating while sitting in my hand) waiting for him to finish swallowing the worm, I noticed Hades pop out of the carefresh. I offered him a worm piece. At first he wasn't sure if he should grab onto it or not, but he eventually latched on. I noticed he was more calm when I was near the tank than he usually was. It was very cool to be able to see that he's coming to understand that I wont hurt him.

[guidofatherof5]

That's good news.

[RedSidedSPR]

Glad he's eating, that's awesome!

[kibakiba]

I was checking on Hades today, he had a red spot on his injured lip, he slipped through my fingers and bit my lip. He then proceeded to bite all over my hands, enough to break the skin in 7 different areas. My boyfriend and my mom both hate him now, my mom says to flush him down the toilet, and my boyfriend says to throw him out the door. I love little Hades.... He's getting really vicious, though. Should I keep him, or let him go?

[Mommy2many]

Keep him. We all have bad days and sounds like he's had it rough for awhile.