What Are These Blisters?

SerpentineDream · 04-26-17, 05:40 PM

Seller was supposed to sex the snake before shipping but forgot. I saw a pic but the blisters are only visible close up. Seller says he's never seen blisters as a result of nose rub but he supposed it wasn't impossible. He didn't see any blisters when packing it up so if that's it, it happened in the shipping bag. He said to call if the blisters get bigger rather than healing up. I offered to send photos but he said he'd need to examine it close up and feel the blisters to offer any sort of useful suggestion.

Don't know any other reptile peeps who could help with sexing. We are few and far between here. The vets aren't very experienced with snakes either because they see so few. That little critter is surprisingly strong. I've had better luck popping ball pythons 20 times bigger than that house snake. I need to replace the probes anyway and don't want to hurt it so I'll wait for those.

Albert Clark · 04-27-17, 05:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SerpentineDream

Seller was supposed to sex the snake before shipping but forgot. I saw a pic but the blisters are only visible close up. Seller says he's never seen blisters as a result of nose rub but he supposed it wasn't impossible. He didn't see any blisters when packing it up so if that's it, it happened in the shipping bag. He said to call if the blisters get bigger rather than healing up. I offered to send photos but he said he'd need to examine it close up and feel the blisters to offer any sort of useful suggestion.

Don't know any other reptile peeps who could help with sexing. We are few and far between here. The vets aren't very experienced with snakes either because they see so few. That little critter is surprisingly strong. I've had better luck popping ball pythons 20 times bigger than that house snake. I need to replace the probes anyway and don't want to hurt it so I'll wait for those.

. Wow. Ok. Gotcha! The only blisters I am aware of in snakes comes from too moist of an enviornment and they are usually on the body behind the head and neck. Also known as "blister disease". This seems more localized. I would think rubbing the rostral scale and frontal scales on a hard surface would cause more of an abrasion than a blister formation. Sorry you have to deal with this. Hope everything works out and the scale issue resolves.