whats wrong with these scales

[RB420]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v672/rb420/scales.jpg

anyone ?

[pythonmdk]

is that befor or after a shed?? doesn't look to pretty.
John

[RB420]

he has had them thru at least two sheds

[pythonmdk]

I'm not really sure what it is, what's your humidity like, and is it only that spot or are other areas affected too?

[Spirit]

I don't know much about this sort of thing, but it looks like scarring to me. Did he lose scales a while back, or suffer any other type of injury?

[RB420]

i've had him practically since he was born, he has never been injured while in my care and did not have those marks before i purchased him his set up is as fallowes:

27-28 degrees on the cool end 31-32 on the warm 55-60% humidity
substrate: paper towel
hides: 2 (1 hot, 1 cold)
water bowl is on the cool side
size: 32cm x 80cm x 40 rubbermaid
location: in my room, low traffic opposite side of where i always am right next to my BCI
ambient room temp (outside the enclosures) 22 C
no other furniture

[sapphire_moon]

I hope you mean celcious and not ferinheight (sp? lol) because those would be really bad temps.

When I had my bp's, my male had scales like that along his back as well, never caused any problems for him, so I wouldn't worry to much about it. If you think it is a BIG cause for concern, then take him to a vet.

One thing that semi cleared it up for my boy was upping the humidity to about 70-75% during his next shed.

[snakehunter]

I used to have that prob. too, I found that regular betadine soaks and neosporin appplications usually remedied it when he shed next. I think it is like a fungus or somthing........

[Invictus]

That looks like a burn to me.

[RB420]

well its not a burn, i use UTH, no heat lamps
is its possible the humidity just wasn't high enough during the last two sheds and a few scales didn't shed of correctly, he only has the three or so scales.

[Bartman]

Just looks like bits of shed to me..

[RB420]

thats what i was thinking bartman, not his last shed, but the one before that, didn't come off to well, would increased humidity solve the problem during a shed peroid