New, incoming ball pythons through the mail...

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Originally Posted by cinderbird

actually, dents in the eye caps are just from low humidity and dehydration or a combination of the two and will fix themselves when the animal gets re-hydrated.

now, CRACKS in the eye caps are an entirely different story. that could be a multitude of things that are not as easy to fix as the dents. Someone could have tried to pull them off with tweezers (!) or needles (!) or something else. A layer or 3 of stuck eye caps won't harm the animal and they can be left until the next shed. Just make sure it has proper humidity throughout the shedding cycle and everything should come off just fine.

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Thanks for the information. My older ball python has a sort of dent in one eye. It was still there after the previous shed even though it went smoothly and humidity was an average of 70%. Every shed he's had in the past may not have been so smooth. I mentioned that he was in shed to the previous owners and they asked if it came off in one piece which makes me think they may have had some bad sheds.

With the new arrivals, I didn't see any dents in the eyes at all.