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Pituophis care?

Yeah I noticed that something is wrong with his nose too. I was looking at pics of the bull snake I found in my chicken coop and his nose is nice and tan. He does seem to be at a good weight, at least by the looks of it, he feels light to me, but I can't tell! He was previously kept in a broken aquarium with a screen top and I was told by the last owners that he tried to get out a lot, so I'm thinking he may have rubbed it raw- that or he got bitten by a mouse. I'm hoping it will return to normal after a few sheds. I had my ex's pine snake here for a while and I really enjoyed her, she used to be a terrible thing too, but with a little patience and handling she turned out to be a sweetheart. It's too bad that when I gave her back to him that she died :( I have no idea the age on this guy, I'm guessing around 3-4 just by the looks, but that is a mere guess. I usually don't let kids hold any of my snakes other than my motley corn and my ball python (even he worries me, but he had 4-5 kids poking and prodding him over summer and seemed to soak it up!), so keeping the bitey part away from kids won't be an issue :) I'd love to be able to take him and my hognose out to talk about them and show kids how to tell the difference between bulls, hoggies, and rattlers.
 
So I have him out right now and I can feel all his ribs as he moves through my hands, so I am guessing he is under weight after all? Should I offer him rats to get his weight back up, or just go with appropriate sized mice?
 
I have to agree with Meg on this one. I think him being so thin, means his body cant really absorb all the fat from a rat. A nice size mouse will help jump start his system back into working the way it should :)

Good luck :)
 
Alright, I gave him a f/t mouse last night and he took it no issues! Thanks for your help.
 
I love my pits! I have Gophers, Pines and a Bull and
they are in the same rack as some corns.
(5 Pines, 1 Bull, 7 Gophers, 7 Corns)
The Helix is set at 81 and all are doing just fine.
I feed them on a 10 to 14 day schedule and all are
full and healthy.
They do grow slower but I'm not going to push them..
Yours looks like it has a bit of a nose rub, but nothing bad.
My big Albino Southern Pine gets one on occassion from
rubbing on her tank screen.
 
Yep, he definitely had (has) a nose rub. He just shed last night, and it was in one full piece, but he's all red and raw where the nose rub was. I don't think that it is bleeding, I didn't see any blood, but it doesn't look pleasant! Should I put neosporin on it, or just leave it?
 
AliCat37 said:
Yep, he definitely had (has) a nose rub. He just shed last night, and it was in one full piece, but he's all red and raw where the nose rub was. I don't think that it is bleeding, I didn't see any blood, but it doesn't look pleasant! Should I put neosporin on it, or just leave it?
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It should be fine, without it, but it wouldn't hurt if you did apply a bit of neosporin.
Very nice boy that you got there.:)
 
Pasodama said:
It should be fine, without it, but it wouldn't hurt if you did apply a bit of neosporin.
Very nice boy that you got there.:)
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Thank you! I will keep an eye on it, he's quite the "death roller" so I'd have to have someone help me hold him to put neo on haha. It's bad when all my friends are unsure of snakes!
 
AliCat37 said:
Thank you! I will keep an eye on it, he's quite the "death roller" so I'd have to have someone help me hold him to put neo on haha. It's bad when all my friends are unsure of snakes!
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Wish we were closer. I'd be more than happy to help out if/when needed.
I really do think he should be fine though. Snakes have remarkable healing systems.
 
It would be nice to be closer to others on the forum. At this point in time I'm not worried about it, if it looks like it is not healing/bleeding I'll figure out how to restrain him and get some neo on it. He was huffing and head butting me a lot earlier when I got him out, so I'm not sure if he's a biter or just a bluffer. I took pics, I'll upload them and post them in a sec.
 
I'd keep him on paper a few months, just to keep loose shreds of substrate off the rub, and Neosporin every so often never hurts.

Nice rescue; seems to be the theme on the forum this holiday season :)
 
chris68 said:
I'd keep him on paper a few months, just to keep loose shreds of substrate off the rub, and Neosporin every so often never hurts.

Nice rescue; seems to be the theme on the forum this holiday season :)
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Yep! He is definitely on paper :) And I've noticed there's lots of rescues going on! It's good for the snakes though.

Here's the pics. I don't know why his eye looks weird in the first one, both eye caps came off, so maybe my shutter speed is just slow and there's a reflection, idk.
 

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Generally the rub will go away after a few sheds. Nothing needs to be done. Just make sure it stays clean and it will do fine. they are tough little buggers and usually more bluff than actual bite.
 
Awesome! I figured it would go away in a few sheds, I just wasn't expecting it to be raw :(
 
One of my cornsnakes rubbed like that at a show. Took a while to finally disappear but it does. May take several sheds and since he's an adult, they don't shed as often...it takes longer than a little tyke would.
 
So RiffRaff has moved to her new cage! (I still haven't had her probed, but I'm going off the short tail to suspect female.) I finally got a rack to move my ball to so she got to move into the big cage! So check it out! (Don't worry about those darn sticky thermometers either- she's got a digital for the warm side.)

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Look how much better that nose looks! Still a bit scabby, but I think with the next one or two sheds she'll do great.
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