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venom_king
10-23-14, 05:10 PM
Sorry about my depature long story. Anyway my retic shed out the other day, and i noticed a small bit of swelling by his face. So i looked at his shed and noticed a couple of hard black specs at the end of his shed of his chin. So are these scales? They‘re not mites ive already done a check. Im going to phone my local reptile shop tomorow but i cant take him down untill saturday due to work. So any advise will help thanks.

pdomensis
10-24-14, 08:42 AM
Hard to say without any pics.

dave himself
10-24-14, 11:08 AM
As said mate pics would help

millertime89
10-24-14, 11:34 AM
Yup, pics are definitely needed.

venom_king
10-24-14, 01:37 PM
Well thats a problem, My phone can't pick the slight swelling. But its feeding day tommorow, So if he strugules then a trip to my local reptile shop will be done.

David VB
10-25-14, 05:18 AM
Can't you take a picture of the black specs on the shed then? That would help too ;)

snake_ghost
10-29-14, 06:37 AM
Well the shed where the 'scales' could be is rolled up, I've tried to unravel it but it keeps tearing. So something else came up. Lastnite i cleaned out my little retic and i noticed a small lump by his jaw, So first thing i done ws ring the vets. They said to ring in the morning which i did, And the only herp vet i trust is on holiday for a week. So i go and check on my retic and the lump is gone? There's no puss, Liquid or anything around his mouth, Heat pits or nostrils. He ate 2 large weaner rats on Sunday nite and ate them with no problem, He's his normal active self like nothings wrong. I know that snakes are able to hide an illness (or so thats what i've been told) Thats why i'm going out of town to find a herp vet, So has anyone seen anything like this with there retics? Thanks.

shaunyboy
10-29-14, 05:14 PM
we need pictures to give you an educated opinion mate


cheers shaun

millertime89
10-30-14, 04:03 PM
99% of the time we're going to need pictures to help. Photobucket is free to sign up for and makes posting pictures easy and point and shoot digital cameras are cheap.