Stuck shed

Thanks yall im gonna try the warm wet towel tomorrow(she just ate yesterday) and help her out! I just know a lot of people say not to soak or intervene unless nessacary and i wasnt sure when nessacary would be..is it that shes not quite 100%on the shedding process yet? Like will it get better as she gets bigger and realizes what she needs to do? Or could it be from previously poor care from petsmart?i went this week and some of their snakes they had when i got lucy are 10x worse on the shed issue and most look really dehydrated 😏 and i didnt take 100% care of her from the getgo as i was learning and you guys have helped me a lot,thanks!

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Lucy came out exploring so we went ahead and tried the warm wet towel 😊was able to get it all except a tad on her tail but since putting her back in her enclosure is like she understands now and is lifting her tail to rub against stuff,she's almost got it off!thanks everybody!!http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...bd42ebaca3.jpg

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Lucy came out exploring so we went ahead and tried the warm wet towel [emoji4]was able to get it all except a tad on her tail but since putting her back in her enclosure is like she understands now and is lifting her tail to rub against stuff,she's almost got it off!thanks everybody!!http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...bd42ebaca3.jpg

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Lovely to hear :)

pink belly so beuti.

She's a gorgeous girl, I love the orange spots on the super fires!

Thank you 😊 me too and she has spots most the way down her back 😍

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Very Nice Snake

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For some reason I'm having mold issues with my Reptichip substrate. Even with a new block, I get surface mold in about two days. Just mixing up the substrate lightly will mix in the mold though, not sure what is causing it. But I can't keep it too moist or I get a bunch of mold. Seems like I may have gotten a strain of mold that likes coconut husk, I didn't have mold problems for months and then all of the sudden it popped up. Because of that I tend to keep it on the dry side, try not to let it completely dry out, but if I see a stuck shed I spray it down real good and that usually gets the she off. In some cases I do give the snake a water bath but never leave them unattended in the tub, I keep the lid off and help them stay in the water. If they are freaking out I don't push it, maybe one minute max, and I usually don't rub them at all until it's falling off without much help. My retic seems to get the worst stuck shed out of all my snakes. Even with my mold problems the coconut husk is still the best substrate in my opinion, keep the smells to zero and keeps the humidity up.