2 questions

[trikesorz]

I have two red tailed boas in the same cage (I know it's a bad idea but I plan on making a divider pretty soon) and they're about 3 feet long. One has been having trouble shedding for about a month now and I tried using a wet rag to gently get the dry skin off but it still has some on it. The other just won't come out of its box. I tried feeding them last week and they would eat.

My questions are

What should I do about the snake that won't shed?

Should I just let the other snake sit in the box all it wants or should I try and take it out?

[Jay_Bunny]

Put them in separate enclosures.

[joepythons]

I have two red tailed boas in the same cage (I know it's a bad idea but I plan on making a divider pretty soon) and they're about 3 feet long. One has been having trouble shedding for about a month now and I tried using a wet rag to gently get the dry skin off but it still has some on it. The other just won't come out of its box. I tried feeding them last week and they would eat.

My questions are

What should I do about the snake that won't shed?

Should I just let the other snake sit in the box all it wants or should I try and take it out?

Well you can mist them a couple times a day when they are in shed to bring up the humidity.

[bsash]

You should mist them twice a day, it will make the humidity rise which will help with the shedding, just don't soak the enclosure, just make it moist. As well, if the snake is having that hard of a time shedding, you could put them in your bath tub in warm water and let them soak for an hour or two. The skin should then be loose enough to peel off. Also, one thing that may really help is "eco earth" it is an expandable dirt that holds humidity well, and they can also burrow in it like they love to.

As for housing them in the same enclosure, it is okay if they are about the same size and kept very well fed. In that case, it would be okay to give them that extra rat a week.

[trikesorz]

As for housing them in the same enclosure, it is okay if they are about the same size and kept very well fed. In that case, it would be okay to give them that extra rat a week.

Would it hurt to separate them? They have been together since I got them (about a year) but they were some what grown so I don't know how long the have been together.

[bsash]

No, it would not hurt to separate them. It could possibly even be better to just for health reasons, but I wouldn't say it is necessary. You never know if one day something could go wrong, or I have heard many stories of snakes that have lived together their whole live with no incidents. So, I guess at this point it is your preference.