Shedding concerns ! ! !

So I have had my BP now for a month or so. It's been in the shedding process for the last week and a half. He's been in his hide all nite and day for over a week. First couple of weeks I have seen him out of his hide exploring. Now he just stays in his hide and doesn't even come out at nite like he use to.

I know it's natural for them to stay out of sight while they are shedding my concern is does a week and a half sound too long for a shed?

His eating is great and so is his poop. It just seems like he is stuck in his shedding mode. He still has shedding in over 60% of his body. Im not sure what the humidity is since I don't have a meter. He has some shed on one side of his eye and the other side is clear. Is there anything I can do to speed up the shedding process? He is in a open top cage. Just a screen on top. The temps are within range. 94 on hot side and 86 on cool.

Please advise.

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If it's not a single peice of shed then your humidity is probably too low. You can give him a humid hide or spray the enclosure to bump up the humidity. You need to get a way to measure the humidity. Acurite has a digital thermometer and humidity gauge..and it's 11 bucks at wal-mart.

I also have a shedding issue. Mine won't :P my boy Kole and my boy Ceasar Have both been in full blue since Tuesday... thats 4 days of solid blue? When is the shed coming?

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Originally Posted by nathanledet

If it's not a single peice of shed then your humidity is probably too low. You can give him a humid hide or spray the enclosure to bump up the humidity. You need to get a way to measure the humidity. Acurite has a digital thermometer and humidity gauge..and it's 11 bucks at wal-mart.

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"humihide" hmmmm I havn't seen one of those.

I heard somewhere if you put a heatlamp directly over his waterbowl that helps as well.

thanx 4 the advise, think I'll stop by wal-mart this weekend....

Definitely let him have a humid hide - my BP didn't shed too good the time before so this last time as well as a humid hide I gave her some extra bit of sphagnum moss inside her hide she was favoring plus a few sprays a day - she emerged looking gorgeous and silky :D

i usually place my water bowl over the UTH for that with a large bowl, have not had any issues in years.

Here's a great sticky on the shed process right in this General forum!


http://www.ball-pythons.net/forums/s...ad.php?t=28794

It's settled, im doing this when I get home tonight.


"Sometimes my snake has trouble shedding and won't go in his water dish so I have to soak him and gently rub him with a cloth. I found a book that told me to do that and it works, I was just wondering if its ok to do that? He doesn't have trouble often but sometimes he doesn't get it all off."

thanx all

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Originally Posted by saltcreep

It's settled, im doing this when I get home tonight.


"Sometimes my snake has trouble shedding and won't go in his water dish so I have to soak him and gently rub him with a cloth. I found a book that told me to do that and it works, I was just wondering if its ok to do that? He doesn't have trouble often but sometimes he doesn't get it all off."

thanx all

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Ball pythons usually don't soak in their water bowls. It's okay if he's got some stuck shed, but you'd be better off raising the humidity so that you don't have to soak and rub with a wet cloth every time.