How to preserve a shed?

Just went through my first BP shed with my new 4 month old albino mojave and he had a perfect shed! Woke up this morning to find it 100% intact with head, eye caps, and tail under one of his hides. I was wondering what is the best way to straighten out, clean up, and preserve the shed. It is already kind of dry and scrunched up.

It's best to straighten it out when it's freshly shed & still damp...then if you're careful, you can flatten it out to dry. Without actually touching your lips, you
can also blow air into the open-mouth part of the shed to inflate the shed...that helps by opening it up so you can flatten it. If it's already dried in a scrunchy,
try misting it with water first, before trying to separate & unroll it.

I routinely save good sheds (intact & no snake poo) for "meet & greet" snake programs*...but I've not tried to preserve any long-term. (*I give them away)
You could probably spray them with shellac (or similar product)? Might want to experiment on the "duds" first...let us know what works best?

I do know from experience :rolleyes: that there are moths that will eat stored snake sheds, so if you save them for long, & without any sort of unappetizing coating,
be sure they are in a tightly-closed plastic bag, one without holes. (I'd bet that some ants would find them to be delicious too?)

That's great advice, thank you! I managed to get it stretched out, it won't lay flat like a skin that's unrolled when it's fresh though. I totally did not think about the fact that some crawly critters might like to eat the skin! That sounds pretty gross lol. I'll see if I can find something that works to spray it with. In the mean time I'll put it in a spare plastic container most likely.