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Ok..I'm not an expert by any means on the garter snakes BUt I do keep em myself here. First off..
Did you rinse the mineral oil off the snake after a short while or just leave it on there? That's when people run into a problem with small snakes and using mineral oil..is when they leave the oil on the snake or just "soak" em in it for a great length of time even. The garter is really too small of a snake to use the mineral oil on even anyway. BUT I do not think that is the problem with your snake though.
It looks more like you have managed to overheat the poor lil thing possibly. It doesn't look dehydrated so much as it looks like the scales have dried up and "withered" on him [img]modules/Forum/images/smiles/icon_cry.gif[/img] In all my garter cages I do NOT use any type of heating in their cages also, especially lights. They are fine just provided an environment to live in without any added heating/lighting elements. Unless you live in Alaska, I wouldn't do such to them.
Also..Why the papertowels as substrate? They actually like to burrow and roam about under/through their substrate. I use the forest floor bedding for mine or the bed - a - beast even. Also keep misting it on occasion for them too.
As for the scales. It doesn't look like scale rot from what I can see in the pics. I would just apply some neosproin to the scales and get his cage set up differntly. Watch him closely and take to vet if needed and doesn't look any better in a couple days.
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