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Has Salsa eaten his own skin?!?!?!

M

maddy4moos

Salsa's parent :D
my 4 month old albino corn snake usually sheds his skin every 23-25 days, normally this is regular as clockwork, however this week he went extremely pale! i nearly took him to a vet, this morning when i checked him he seemed to be fine, he seems to have regained some colour back in his skin... but there is no sign on a skin... i don't know weather he has shed or not! Could he have eaten his skin?? we haven't fed him for a week i admit, he usually feeds every 3 days. Help! I'm really concerned about him. he doesn't seem to very as active as usual either! : :shrugs:

is due to shed his skin
goes very very very pale
no skin found
regaining his colour back
doesn't seem to be as active

do i need to take him to a vet???

does anyone know whats wrong?

i can get some photos if needed...

Thanks alot
Love Maddy
 
He didn't eat his skin. Before snakes shed they do go very very pale. Then they get their normal color back for a few days. Actually one of mine is in that stage now. You should find a shed in a day or two.
 
OK thanks alot! you saved me, i was beginning to panic. and i do feed him every 5 days, thats was a typo sorry.
 
Look at his belly. If he has any kind of visible checkers (not sure what morph he is) they will look muted and kind of milky in color. As mentioned above he is one or two days away from shedding. You might be confused because his eyes have lost their blue. This is normal and happens when the snake is close to shed.
 
thanks :) he's still not shed :( its been at least 4 days since his eyes lost their blue...

also he hasn't moved from his log for the last two days unless he's moving his head to see what i'm doing in his tank (i have problems with humidity so i spray his tank every day)
 
He should not be eating 5 pinkies at one time. If he is able to handle that, he long since should have moved up in prey size.
 
he does eat fuzzys sometimes but they kinda get stuck or he refuses them, we have to pick out the small ones :( the pinkies that i get do seem to be large for pinkies though... or what i would usually get anyway... whats the adverage amount of food a snake should be eating a day?
 
Well snakes can't eat everyday. It really depends on the size of the snake to determine what and when they should eat. Newborns can eat 1 pinly every 5-7 days. As they get older the prey size increases and the time between either stays the same or is longer.

How big and or how old is your snake?
 
I'm no expert, but I would think if he could handle 5 pinks in one feeding he certainly could handle 1 fuzzy every 5 days.. jmo.
 
4 month old, and he's appoximately 40cm long.

sorry i phrased that last message weird, i feed him about every 5-6 days, thinking about increasing it to 7 days
 
maddy4moos said:
4 month old, and he's appoximately 40cm long.

sorry i phrased that last message weird, i feed him about every 5-6 days, thinking about increasing it to 7 days
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But, are you still feeding 5 pinks a feeding? If so I'd try 1 fuzzy every 5 days and see how it goes?
 
yeah ok i'll move him to fuzzies, he can eat some fuzzies... but i have to pick out the smaller ones for him to eat. he can't handle anything above general size... and to be honest most of them are. Lately I've been thinking about chicks... can Salsa eat them?

i'll make sure that i get some fuzzies in for his next feed :) thanks for your help
 
Chicks are huge!!

When I go buy mice, I feel like Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally. "I'd like twelve fuzzies, but I want six of the fuzzies to be the kind with white hair, and six to be the kind with peach hair, not white yet, and I'd like twelve pinks- but I'd like six to be the tiny newborn pinks and six to be the bigger, almost fuzzy size pinks- no, wait- they have to be frozen! And I'd like a killed adult mouse, kind of in between medium and large..." They're like, here's the bag- pick out what you want. Which I am happy to do!

Nanci
 
lol sounds like you have fun everytime you go to the pet shop! hehe

are peach fuzzies smaller than normal fuzzies??

sorry i'm kinda new to the snake looking after thingi. I would do anything for my snake (Salsa) i'm still trying to get my bearings
 
Yes peach fuzzies are smaller that normal ones. Here go to Rodentpro.com and click on browse products. Then go to mice and look at the different sizes.
 
David is right. Snakes don't eat every day. They should be eating on average every 7 days. Younger snakes can eat a little more often, older snakes a little less. They generally eat one prey item at a time.

How big of a lump does 5 pinkies make in him anyway?
 
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