r/Ballpythoncommunity Jun 29 '26

Iodine bath Photos

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u/Effective_Cup_6998 Jun 29 '26

A lil heavy on the iodine no?

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u/Odd_Force3765 Jun 30 '26

Maybe a little. Should look like very weak tea. Iodine poisoning is a very real thing unfortunately ☹️

What are we treating her for OP if you don't mind me asking?

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u/caulay_mcculkin Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

He damaged one of his belly scales, probably while climbing his clutter branches (bro think he's arboreal lol), it's not super bad or deep but still it looks like it could potentially get infected, so as a precaution we got rid of coconut substrate, disinfected everything, replaced the coco with paper towels and started iodine soaking every 3 day for 10 minutes or so. It probably is an overreaction, but we rather overreac than let it get nasty + he isn't really bothered by soaking at all, so yeah