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Shedding ???
Forgive me if I am long winded!
Ok so I am fairly new to ball pythons but have read extensively and think I am doing most things right..... So I bought a BP for my husband right before Christmas, the guy I got her from claimed to have had her since she hatched. When I got her he said she had finished shedding that day, his proof was torn up shed all over the room he kept her in (she wasn't caged, she was kept with 7 other snakes in a closet basically) and he himself was covered in pieces of shed from holding her. He claimed she was shedding every 4-5 months, but thought she should be shedding more often. She had several layers of stuck eyecaps, which I left alone.
After getting her home, we put her in a tub, she had signs of scale rot which we treated with neosporin, and we keep her on papertowels. Her temps are 83 cool side and 92-93 warm side, humidity is 60-70%. I use an accurite thermo/hygro and a UTH controlled with a dimmer for heat.
I have 2 questions, the first is, I can't keep her out of her water bowl. She does not have mites, her temps should be fine, I know she was having crummy sheds, but she did not appear to have any shed other than her eyecaps on. This has been going on for about 3 weeks. I figured it may have something to do with shedding, which brings me to my second question. She shed completely less than 48 hours ago. We were able to unroll the whole thing, and it was complete from tail to nose, with all of her stuck eyecaps included. (I am very proud) but her belly re pinked, and she is starting to look blue again. Is it possible for a snake to immediately go into another shed? I have a second BP that we rescued and are treating for severe belly burns, tape worm, and pin worms, and even with his healing burns and rapid weight gain, he is just entering a second shed after 3 weeks, which the vet said to expect, but can a BP shed and re enter shed in 48 hours??
Sorry again that this is so long!
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