Shed issues

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Originally Posted by Ryan Chin

In my experience balls respond better to having their upper body skin removed head/neck rather than lower body skin, in terms of lethargy and eating. The only thing I would be worried about on the lower body is the area around the cloaca, just make sure that area is clean and not harboring any build of feces or the sort.

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The issue about leaving tail shed is that the shed could cut off circulation if the snake grows too fast. Many snaked have had this occur to them, which eventually lead to dead rotting tails.

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99% success rate

You really should never have to bath (fill up a tub and soak a BP), other than maybe for mite treatment

The best shed help:

1) Find snake bag or other very coarse bag, like the snake bags you often get at reptile shows

2) Run it under the hottest tap water you can stand, until soaked

3) Wring out just enough water to carry to the enclosure.

4) Put snake in the sack, in cage right away. The bag will have cooled down enough to not harm the animal

Rinse, repeat if necessary.
Works like a charm!

I just dampen a washcloth with warm water and then place the snake on the wash cloth. I wrap up the snake like a burrito (leaving the ends open for air circulation) and allow the snake to slither out of the washcloth while applying gentle pressure. Usually the warmth and coarseness of the cloth along with a little pressure is enough to get the skin to slide right off.

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Originally Posted by snakehobbyist

I just dampen a washcloth with warm water and then place the snake on the wash cloth. I wrap up the snake like a burrito (leaving the ends open for air circulation) and allow the snake to slither out of the washcloth while applying gentle pressure. Usually the warmth and coarseness of the cloth along with a little pressure is enough to get the skin to slide right off.

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I'll definitely try this sometime in the future

This worked pretty well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wxf9cmS0qQ&feature=plcp

Looks like 3 balls with shed issues in that video...guess they need to up the humidity so that problem doesn't happen so frequently :P


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Originally Posted by hypnotixdmp

Looks like 3 balls with shed issues in that video...guess they need to up the humidity so that problem doesn't happen so frequently :P


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You talking about my video? There's only one ball in that video. I also have a washcloth in there for him to rub against.

Ahh that's what I saw was a washcloth!!! Thought it was 2 more my bad


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Originally Posted by hypnotixdmp

Ahh that's what I saw was a washcloth!!! Thought it was 2 more my bad


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That shed issue was right before I got my RBI rack. Once you go rack, you'll never go back. :D

When our snake was stuck, I soaked her in a tuppleware full of warm water then gently rubbed on the skin until I could slip my finger under the skin. Then I just held on (gently) at two points and let the snake pull against me to wriggle out. She figured out what to do pretty quickly and it all came away