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18-Aug-07, 05:21 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Toowoomba | | |
scales1.jpgMy coastal carpet has had strange scales on her back for the last three or four sheds. Any ideas??  The ones on her underside are nice and big and smooth, but on top they are shrunken and pointy. |
18-Aug-07, 06:11 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Jun-07 Location: Behind You :o Age/Gender: 21  | | | | Thats kinda cool looking =P. |
18-Aug-07, 07:31 PM
|  | Subscriber | Join Date: Feb-07 Location: Brisbane, Toowong Age/Gender: 20 | | | | No idea... Got a photo from the top view? Is it definitely abnormal? |
18-Aug-07, 09:43 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Toowoomba | | | | In the photo from about halfway around her body the scales change and they are like that across to the other side. No she hasn't always had them like that, they used to be all smooth and even like a snake should be. |
18-Aug-07, 09:45 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Sep-06 Location: Sydney Age/Gender: 20 | | | | They definatly dont look normal, is it possibly a dried on shed?
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18-Aug-07, 09:50 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Toowoomba | | | | No she just shed on Friday and it all came off apart from a bit on the tail which I am still dealing with - soaking etc. |
18-Aug-07, 09:51 PM
|  | Bonus Member Subscriber | Join Date: Mar-06 Location: Ballina, Northern NSW. Age/Gender: 24 | | | | yea, that doesnt look good imo.... I have no idea what it could be.... maybe some sort of scale rot? Iv heard of mites raising scales up, tho with that many up, i think you would know if they were present.
Anyone got any ideas??? i think it could be quite serious....
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18-Aug-07, 09:55 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | i would be taking it to the vet |
18-Aug-07, 10:08 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Toowoomba | | | She is 5 years 9 months old and has never had any problems until the last few months. She was at the vet recently and he put her on a course of antibiotics for an infection that showed up on a blood test. We were at the vet originally because of retained eye scales (which eventually came off a couple of sheds later) scales3.jpg |
18-Aug-07, 10:18 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | what was the infection? |
18-Aug-07, 10:21 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Aug-07 Location: Toowoomba | | | | He didn't specify, just said she had a high white blood cell count and that it usually indicates an infection. No other signs otherwise, still eating well, just problems shedding as far as I knew. |
18-Aug-07, 10:47 PM
| | Regular Member | Join Date: Jul-07 Location: typical melbourne Gender: | | | | is your enclosure to dry and have you got plenty of water for bathing in ? |
18-Aug-07, 11:44 PM
|  | Regular Member | Join Date: Apr-07 Location: brisbane Age/Gender: 35 | | | | take to the vet make sure he specializes in reptiles
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19-Aug-07, 12:39 AM
| | | | I would recommend double checking for mites ?
Could cause the scales to go weird...
Does the snake site in water alot? |
19-Aug-07, 01:07 AM
|  | Subscriber | | | | | could be a fungal infection, what kind of bedding are you using? | | |
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