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lougotzz
10-27-13, 04:37 PM
Costa Rican boa. About four months old.

Looks like dry skin on the nose on top of head. Uhm swelling around eyes a little bit. He did have snake mites a couple of months ago. I treated him as per reccomendations on this board.

I was out of town for like a week and a half. The ****** watching the house forgot to turn the snakes light on and off. Switch daylight bulb with night time bulb.. I got home, snake was in his water dish and was ice cold. He keeps yawning. I'll try and take a pic.
DeesBalls
10-27-13, 04:39 PM
possibly a respitory infection from no heat, the skin on the nose could be dried mucus? you have pics? any clicking noise when he breaths, or crackingnoise/
Hotchkiss
10-27-13, 04:40 PM
I hope you docked the housekeeper pay for snake treatment
lougotzz
10-27-13, 04:50 PM
I'm thinking resp. infection also....Uhmm I'm having a hard time loading a pic from my phone. I'm really not sure how to do it. It looks like dried skin/scales. No clicking noise that I'm aware of...What's cracking nose?
DeesBalls
10-27-13, 05:19 PM
cracking noise. like when he breaths it will be crackling, or a pop sound. i forget how to upload with phone, i think use photobucket mobile, or something, even PM a mod, they can do it with a picture you send them
lougotzz
10-27-13, 05:29 PM
http://i1003.photobucket.com/albums/af155/louass123/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20131027_182953_025_zps3bb15897.jpg (http://s1003.photobucket.com/user/louass123/media/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_20131027_182953_025_zps3bb15897.jpg.html)y
DeesBalls
10-27-13, 05:31 PM
could.... still .... be mucus, but i am not totally sure what the is, just being honest, i was thinking something else... Im still saying respitory infection though maybe.
lougotzz
10-27-13, 05:39 PM
What do I do about it?
poison123
10-27-13, 05:40 PM
Looks like he had a bad shed. And it looks like his eye lids did not come off.
lougotzz
10-27-13, 05:49 PM
Looks like he had a bad shed. And it looks like his eye lids did not come off.

He's had nothing but full sheds since I got him though.
ErikBush97
10-27-13, 07:46 PM
Have you found eye caps every time he's shed?
slowhite03
10-27-13, 07:52 PM
Give him a warm bath tonight and then let him crawl through a bath towel. If its a bad shed that will clear it up and possibly fix or cross off a possibility
lougotzz
10-28-13, 10:12 PM
Ok he just had a full shed. What ever was on his nose is gone now. I forgot to mention last night he was getting ready to shed.