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    Thumbs up Fluffy's First Shed!

    I am a member in the shadows. Being a new BP momma, I am more in the position to take advice rather than give it. We got her less than a month ago & she wasnt even a foot long maybe 3 pencils thick! She is my first Ball Python much less snake of any kind! With being a first time BP mom, I wanted to read up all I could & found this forum to be EXTREMELY helpful!

    With knowledge of the lady I got her from (the owner of the snake mama) she was to shed soon. So I turned to this site to learn how to help my Fluffy have her very first (first that we know of) shed!

    She started 3 days ago with looking dry & having cloudy eyes. Scared she was sick I looked in this forum "Cloudy Eyes" & found it was time for her to shed. Then I learned that giving her a soak in warm water for about 30 minutes would help her through it. Yesturday I saw her moving in her cave but wouldn't come out. I looked in & she was at the tail end of her shed! She still had it on her back pretty good though. So I picked her up & took her for a quick 10 minute soak. Before we went to bed she completed her shed & without trouble!

    I am very happy that unlike most that I have read about, her first one wasnt hard or long at all! She did most of it herself & it went swimmingly!

    With that said I wanted to thank this forum for the help & knowledge I have received for one of my Fluffy's milestones!

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    As long as your humidity is right as with the rest of your husbandry, You don't have to soak.

    I have only soaked my Normal twice for stuck shed.. Coming from a pet store his husbandry was crap when I got him, it took a little longer to get him right !!
    1.0 Normal (Diablo)
    1.0 Platinum Lesser (Aurora)
    1.0 Russian Blue Cat (Magnum)
    0.1 House Cat (Porsche)
    1.0 Australian Cattle Dog (Diesel)
    0.1 Yorky (Mercedes)
    2.0 Kids (Matt & Leland)
    0.1 Wife (Jennifer)
    No The wife and Kids do not conform to the Automotive type Names haha
    All Lessers are equal, but I got the pretty one

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