well I never thaught I would be asking a ball pythin question.

[Scales Zoo]

No one has mentioned scale rot.

From the pictures, it doesn't look like scale rot.

Scale rot can happen when the snakes are kept on moist substrate. The first signs are a pink belly, eventually parts of the belly scales actually "rot away".

While newspaper and paper towels have their advantages, humidity and spilled water dishes can create a problem.

Ryan

[Jeff_Favelle]

All my BP's (there's a LOT of them) all get pinkish bellies before the shed.

[ReptiZone]

well I think I got my situation all figured out I was looking through my records and I realysed that I was replacing the water in a ball enclosure like almost 2 times a day every day of the week then I also noticed that I wroght that the rednes started after 2 weeks of that kind of routine. then I did some serches in my books and on the net and I found out that the first normal sing of scale rot is rednes on the belly scales then I red that a good factor contributing to this is a to humide or wet enclosure.

well when you place a clean water dish B4 you leav for work and come home to a wet cage then clean it and place a clean water dish just to do it all over in the morning there is no telling just how long the water has ben spilt and the snake laying in it.

So my solution place clean water every 2 and only for 4-8 hours when it is all gone I will get biger dishes so they will not be tiped over.

Man what a simple answer to a rather complex problem.

[lilyskip]

I'm glad you got it figured out! as far as water bowls, I use a weighted dog dish that my snake can't tip over, and I change it once a day. do you have a humidity gauge? that would really help with this thing in the future, if you don't have one already.

[ReptiZone]

It is all gone and I am so happy the red ness is all gone and now it is a crisp clear white I think it was the fact that the water dish was being tiped over so often and the ink on the paper was leaking on the snake cause the shed was actualy redish so I am sooo happy and I now chucked all the paper in all my cages in got a 50% repti bark 50% eco earth as a substrate it keeps thing nice and humid and the repti bark keeps it on the dry side I will see how this plays out for me. And I was such a enforcer of using news paper now it wil just be for my quarentine cages.