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bad shed+feeding?

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  • 05-11-2004, 10:52 PM
    Dragons91RS
    wierd subject I know but here is what happend.
    Sirius was going into shed last week(cloudy eye's) so she didnt get fed. well we waited till friday and she didnt shed on her own. she tried, but it didnt happen. tank himidity was around 50% since I set it up, and I put a damp towel over the top and brought humidity up to 60%+ but I guess it just wasnt enough in a 30g long tank.
    well we soaked her saturday, and found a few loose spots and got her shed off, all except a thin strip on both sides of her neck we missed(100% possitive we got the every thing else including eye caps).

    well I fed tonight not realising that, noticed the missed spots wile she was eating because they stretched and unraveled a bit. well once she was done eating I noticed those 2 spots were keeping her from rounding back out, and have worked kind of like a rubber band and have made the skin on her bottom side squared.

    I know this is not good, and I need to get that old skin off, but dont know how soon after feeding it would be ok. what do you all think. I dont want to cause regurgitation, but I also dont want problems do to the old skin being left on there eather. :?
  • 05-11-2004, 10:59 PM
    Marla
    I'd say leave her alone until at least tomorrow night. If she got the food past the old skin, then she's not in any immediate danger from it, and regurgitation is too traumatic to be worth risking it.
  • 05-12-2004, 09:21 AM
    Ginevive
    Quote:

    I'd say leave her alone until at least tomorrow night
    I would agree. doing anything now could cause regurgitation. I would wait 24 hours or more after the feeding, and then soak again.
    Another option, if the skin is on the neck and does not stay submerged during a soak, would be to make a humidity chamber-type hide and leave it in the cage above the hot spot.
    I always raise my humidity to near 90 percent during shedding, and do not encouter any problems with retained shed pieces.
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