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Bad shed scar?

Porro

Porro

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So the tip of the tail on my snow corn is dark, the best way I can describe it is that it looks like the very end of his tail is burnt. He went through a not so good shed a month or so ago where I had to "negotiate" the tip of the shed off.....

So could this be a result of that? He just went through another shed and it is still there (I was kinda hoping it would go away with another shed...)

Is it just something he's going to have for the rest of his life? Is it possibly scale rot? Any ideas??

Thanks for any help/advice you can give.....
 
What do you mean by "negotiate"? Depending on what you did, could of led toi the reason for the "burnt" tail, probably wasn't your fault though.

Could be due to the shed, though. Can you get a picture? It'll help others to understand more and advise you better.
 
If there isn't anything really hot in your viv which could've burned him, I think it'd be the result of a bad shed.... The blood flow to the end of the tail has been cut off causing it to go black. If it is it will eventually drop off and he'll have a stubby tail for life.
I did read that apart from having a slightly stubby tail, there is no other detriment to the snake. To prevent it happening again, make sure you supply your snake with a humid hide when they begin the shedding process... I am a newbie, im sure someone else will come along with something better...=]
 
kloe2008 said:
The blood flow to the end of the tail has been cut off causing it to go black. If it is it will eventually drop off and he'll have a stubby tail for life.
I did read that apart from having a slightly stubby tail, there is no other detriment to the snake.
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I've heard that too. Keep an eye on it, I bet it'll fall off in a little while. Burns on snakes look like blisters, I think it would have to be really freaking hot to singe or blacken them... I don't think that would be it. I think a burn that serious would be an emergency situation, and if you've had a bad shed recently that seems to make more sense to me.
 
oh no poor Charles, I feel so bad for him now. I had a humid hide and the humidity was around 50% when he shed so I'm not sure why that happend.

Thanks for the input though.
 
My 08 male had a couple bad shed when he first came to me. The former owners were frankly idiots. They tried very hard to keep humidity in the tank they had him and his 2 or 3 (can't remember) siblings were in as close to 0 as they could. They said he was a dessert snake and did not need humidity. They believed it would hurt him to have any humidity. They also rarely fed the poor thing. So . . .your humidity sounded ok, a little high for my liking but that is me. May have been diet related, or part of the shed got stuck on something and ripped causing the tail tip to come off oddly. Does not sound like your fault at all. My male lost the tip of his tail twice, luckily just teeny bits. Let it alone and it will come off when it is ready. You can try having the snake go for a swim a couple times after going blue then clear again. You want to wait til he is clear again so he can see and does not freak out :)
 
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