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coronadrinker85

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Hey guys I was looking at my corn today and noticed that her head seems browner than the color just past her head. She also had a piece of skin hanging off the top of her head. Does this sound like something or am i just being paranoid?
 
A piece of skin? Like a piece of old skin, shedding skin? Is it clear, or is it colored?
 
I had thought that it was a piece of retained shed at first but now thinking back she had a perfect shed last time, and I looked her over right after. I'm thinking it sounds like scale rot based off of what im reading
 
Scale rot is a fungus. It won't travel to another viv. I don't have any experience with it but I just read a thread recently that had a treatment. Try the search?
If you can give people a pic maybe someone can tell you for sure. Sorry, but the loose skin part worries me a bit.
None of this sounds stupid, by the way.
 
sorry for the crappy pics but here they are

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on this one you can see some dry skin behind her eye

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I was recently told here that scale rot can be either fungal or bacterial in origin. In either case, yes it can pass between tanks and snakes.
 
How old is your snake? My big boy, Bob, has a couple of patches like this, they are scars from him rubbing his head against the top of his enclosure (springtime activity, I've never bred him but he still wants to go hunting girls!).

Lesley
 
bitsy said:
I was recently told here that scale rot can be either fungal or bacterial in origin. In either case, yes it can pass between tanks and snakes.
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Thank you, Bitsy! I wouldn't have thought fungus could travel without the same conditions to support it.
So I was only completely wrong last night? Duh me. Sorry, coronadrinker.
 
I'm not sure exactly how old she is. what should I do!? I only have one room that is set up for housing snakes, the rest of the house is pretty cold. I DO NOT want this spreading to my ball pythons!
 
*IF* it's scale rot (and if it is, you've caught it early), you need to observe quarantine as best you can with only one room available. No sharing of cleaning equipment for tanks, bowls, hides etc. Wash hands carefully between handling snakes. No sharing feeding tanks - or if you have to, completely disinfecting them after each use.
 
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