Hiya,

So my husbandry was off. Really off. I got the humidity up to 55 or so on average with the foil method but that just wasn't enough and my poor little guy has a stuck shed on his head and neck.

I'm fixing my husbandry and a T8 is on its way now. I'm really upset about this whole issue because I love my snake a lot and I know I screwed up by not ensuring his enclosure was at a better humidity.

I'm really worried about my little guy. I got the stuck shed body parts off with soaking, but my snake HATES soaking. I have a mixture of cypress and jungle mix as substrate, a water dish he can soak in, and two little black hides in addition to a log hide the he really oddly loves.

Is there anything I can do to get the stuck shed off his head and neck? He seems fine otherwise and was being his cute curious self this morning. I tried getting the stuck shed off this morning but he is SO headshy. When I tried to just rub his neck a bit he jerked back and did some form of waste release on me. After that I put him back in his enclosure because I didn't want to stress him out anymore. I've had him about a month and have rarely handled him because I worry about his stress levels.

He's a resilient little guy and will bounce back from stress pretty quickly. Today is his feeding day though so I just don't know what to do or how worried to be.