I was directed here from cornsnakes.com and this is a re-post of a thread from there...

I'm still struggling with this little ball python at work. I posted awhile back about her scale rot/vent injury...

finally got that cleared up, finally taught her to eat mice from one end or the other - not the middle... now it's something else!

The last two sheds have gone horribly. She'll go opaque, then turn "crispy"... and that's all. The first time I waited 3 weeks with daily soaks and she never shed on her own. I finally had to remove it all myself over the course of a week.

After that shed, she was moved from paper towel to aspen and her tank was misted twice a day to raise humidity. We also began soaking her three times a week.

This time, as soon as she went opaque, we started daily soaks. A week later she was fully crispy and uncomfortable. Her skin still won't shed on its own. She has a rough half-log she can (and does) rub on to no avail. When I hold her, she starts rubbing her head back and forth on the edge of my palm, but that gets her nowhere either.

She's going to be adopted into a special, knowledgeable home, owner full aware of her past and present problems, but I'm wondering if there's something else we can do other than manually helping her out of her old skin each shed.

**Additional info**

Snake was received with scale rot that progressed. She was housed in a 20l on paper towel and soaked daily in chlorhexadine solution with antibiotic ointment applied to the worst rot areas.
Once that was healed, she was upgraded to aspen bedding and received soaks only three times a week with daily soaks starting the week of going opaque the second time around.

Current setup:
20L, aspen, waterbowl, half-log hide and tall climbing branch.
UTH on rheostat running around 90-92
Ambient temperature is usually around 75-78
Tank is misted twice daily
Snake generally eats once a week, has just upgraded from single F/T fuzzies to single F/T small mouse.