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    Strange looking patch on head

    Any thoughts??


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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    Looks like an "old" burn or cut to me. If it's scheduled to shed soon, then it would be more noticable and look worse than it is.

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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    well my thoughts would be either a blister of some sort but i dont really know if snakes can get a blister but i dont think its a burn or anything seeing as its a baby but i guess if the heat lamp is left in the enclosure it could be possible that it touched it is the scale completely lifted off because a while back george had scratched a layer of one of her scales on her head off but it came back next shed
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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    It is a baby and there is no heat.

    The lamp illuminating that cage is 6 feet up (plenty far enough away)

    The camera Macro captured it more detailed. To the eye, it looks like a green speck.

    So a burn is out of the question.

    The snake is only a few months old, Just now spotted the patch.

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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    Could it be left over from a shed? What does it feel like? From the side of that scale does it seem elavated? How is the snake dealing with it? Does it rub its head in that area? Does it seem irratating to the snake? Have you done anything for it yet? Maybe some neosporin. Best yet have a vet check it out. Best of luck with the little one.

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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    wow first off guido i love how inquisitive and active you are with the forum as a new member and second those were all very good questions is it possible for a snake to get a blister or something linke that because also to me the scale looks a little skin like like it is tender and can get mishapen
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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    old shed would be my best guess
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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    sooty had the same thing on her nose..... i think it is a missing scale that got rubbed off when she was rubbing her head on the screen top........ think it's the same thing...... sooty's went away with the next shed but i did put some bacitracin on it......
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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    that looks to me like a missing scale. actually... from your picture... it looks exactly like a missing scale. I have seen this happen in babies where when they shed... for some reason something does not work right and a scale just comes off. To me... that just looks like skin that is covering an area that a scale should be. It has also recently happened to a scale on my baby male eastern milk's head.

    I was helping a friend from the shows sex his baby amel checkereds... and happened to notice one with that EXACT scale completely missing yesterday. No scar tissue... just skin where a scale was supposed to be. I am not sure if it will grow back or not!
    Mother of many snakes and a beautiful baby girl! I am also a polymer clay artist!


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    Re: Strange looking patch on head

    The more I stared at the picture, the more I thought the same thing.

    I am keeping this one, so we'll see how it progresses.

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