Loose-ish Skin

[kimbosaur]

Something seems to be up with my baby. The past few days when I handled her, she felt different then when I first got her - like more squishy almost.

Today when I was trying to get a tail pic, I realized that her skin seems pretty loose. Like, I can grab a piece and pinch it together with my fingers. When I took a closer look at her belly, there was this weird dented/folded line down the middle. Also, i noticed when I run my fingers upwards on her belly, I can feel a distinct, rough edge to some of her belly scales. I can't remember if it was always like that or not.

Is something wrong??
She's eating fine. Could it be a shed problem?

I got a pic of the belly wrinkle:

[katach]

Is she pooping?

[kimbosaur]

Haven't seen any poops!

Edit: I'm going to search for some now.

[RedSidedSPR]

I can't tell you since I can't feel her myself, but I doubt anythings wrong.

From what I can tell, the wrinkles are normal. Sometimes they even gt something like this, but it should go away (my flame) he just has it nothing wrong.


Their skin isn't exactly tight... if you're really worried I can make a quick video of me messing with my snakes skin and show you...

But really, I doubt anythings wrong.

[kimbosaur]

Hey Jesse,
She has one of those too! Closer to her vent though.

When I did a little of a search just now, it said that loose skin can be caused by dehydration. I left the hood light on for a long, long time yesterday (didn't get home til late), and when I went to check now, it was completely evaporated! Like completely. I added fresh water and placed her in the bowl. She swam around and soaked in there for a couple of minutes. Maybe that's what was wrong.

I really hope she's good.

[kimbosaur]

Also, is it normal to be able to feel the edge of the belly scales?

[kibakiba]

I feel an edge sometimes when I'm holding my snakes, not very often though

[RedSidedSPR]

Yes.

Yup dehydration and malnutrition are the main causes, but I seriously doubt that's the problem.

I can have a video from my iPod, uploaded from my iPod up by tonight if seeing a normal loose skin will help. Won't be good qualitybas we list our computer so I can't upload from camera.

[katach]

I hope so too.

[kimbosaur]

Btw, thanks for the quick replies guys. I would otherwise be sitting here frantically hitting the refresh button for lord knows how long.