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I am a happy daddy! :D
Some of you on this forum may remember my issues regarding my Queen Elizabeth, and her pink coloring and the "orange" splotches all over...
some members of this community said that it could be scale rot, or burns from a heating pad or it could be that she was officially shedding (since it is my first snake, and I got her at 3 feet so I had never seen shedding before) and thus my husbandry was put into question...
so after I got through with that thread, I went about changing my babies substrate from aspen shavings (>.<) to newspaper... and to solve the issues of not having a rheostat on my heating pad, I just put a hand towel in between the glass and substrate to diffuse the heating coming from it.
I am happy, (and SO relieved), to say that she was indeed shedding... she finally finished this morning... its been almost 9 days since I noticed her coloring... but now she is SO PRETTY! like... so much more... vibrant than I remember her... and her coloring is an almost yellow instead of a brown that I remember her as...
when I woke up this morning, I went to her aquarium to find many, many shed pieces of skin (now I know it is supposed to come off in one long piece, so I will go ahead and shoot my husbandry down and say that I am still getting humidity down... but it was full pieces... and she didn't have one flake on her left over, so I didn't have a "bad" shed (per se).
Ontop of that, under her coolside hide, was urates and feces, so its like she just.... cleaned herself completely...
and when I woke her up from under her warm side, she hissed a little, which I attributed to her saying: "Dad wth its only 8am!" and as soon as I had her on my shoulders so I could change her newspaper (which proved to be MUCH easier than aspen.... I just balled it up, poop and skin and all, and replaced it with new sheets of paper  ) she was roaming around and very alive and active and flicking her tongue everywhere (I think someone is hungry!!!! )
As a side note: I had bought her a FT rat last friday (since I feed her every friday) but she was just entering the gray eye phase of her shed, so she completely ignored it... but I think that since its been two weeks since she has ate, and she is all new she will probably eat.
Sorry for SUCH a long message, but I am SO relieved and thought I would share it (because my parents wouldn't understand ^-^)
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