Scales in shed?

[venom_king]

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]

Hard to say without any pics.

[dave himself]

As said mate pics would help

[millertime89]

Yup, pics are definitely needed.

[venom_king]

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]

Can't you take a picture of the black specs on the shed then? That would help too

[snake_ghost]

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]

we need pictures to give you an educated opinion mate


cheers shaun

[millertime89]

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.