Whats happend?

[Ian.g]

Originally Posted by naz

Wouldn`t the burn be on the belly though

depends how the heat mat is placed...if it was inside the enclosure then it could easily slide underneath it and get burned, but as the OP said the mat is off then that cant be the cause....so other than my other suggestion i dont know really....

[GazP19]

indeed would of been something i'd noticed when buying but didnt, he has a coconut hide, and that has a slight hole in the top of it, he could have possibly squeezed through that but then i would expect the tear to be at the fattest part of him, not near his tail. and i'm using aspen.

[punky_jen]

This happened to one of my snakes, she was in a tub and managed to squeeze herself through a tiny gap and escape, taking some scales with her, looks like yours might of gotten stuck somewhere and they scraped off?

[GazP19]

will he fix it himself in time or do i need to do something?

[punky_jen]

My girl was ok, the skin wasn't and after a few sheds she was ok. But keep an eye on him, you dont want him doing whatever he did again.

[GazP19]

thanks, i'll keep an eye on him and give him some tlc and a bath later

[punky_jen]

Originally Posted by GazP19

thanks, i'll keep an eye on him and give him some tlc and a bath later

If you think something in his viv may have cause it, id remove it, just incase. Get well soon little corn snake.

[GazP19]

the only thing in there is his hide and water bowl, so i've taken the hide out as a precaution. other than that i'll just have to keep an eye on him

[Janine00]

try just using a cardboard box like an oxo cube box for a hide or similar, or just a loo role centre cut in half

[Hannah81]

If you put him on kitchen roll instead of aspen for now with as above, simple cardboard hides, then it's easier to monitor what happens.