Shed watch!

Stress, I Always Here That.my Snakes Dont Have Stress.i Bring Them Out 2 Hrs. When The Sun Is Out And 2 Hrs. At Night.they Eat Better Than Me They Get More Exersize Than Me.they Even Have Better Skin Than Me.if You Feel Funny About Feeding Your Snake When Its Sheding Dont!!!!!it Will Not Hurt The Snake To Go A Week Or Two Without Food.just Feed It Right After..its Shed...in The Wild Snakes Would Have Lots Of Stress With Us The Snake Just Wants To Get Out Of Its Tank Once A Day.even Prisoners Get 1 Hr. A Day Of Exersize...plus They Get Out Every Day To Eat....

Oh, he was offered food on Sunday, his regular feeding day and he refused, so what I was talking about with stress is that I didn't want to offer food each day and just stress him out. If he's not interested, he's not interested, plain as that.


I see that you are new here, welcome! A little background about Kashmire is that he is about 3 months old, and I got him about a month ago. He refused pre-killed, live fuzzy, and live small mouse. He finally took a live hopper with Adam's newspaper idea (put balled up newspapers all in his enclosure, put the live hopper in with him and walk away). Thirty minutes later the hopper was gone.

I left him alone for two days, and on the second day I noticed something in his enclosure and posted pictures and everyone agreed that it was re-gurg. Adam again came to Kashmire's "rescue" and said that with no handling, re-gurg "could" be caused by internal parasites and to get him tested. Right on cue, he pooped that night and I bagged the poop, and spritzed it and put it in a plastic baggy in the fridge. Dropped it off the next day to a vet I talked to on the phone and it tested positive for three strongile parasites. That day he was taken to another vet (the first vet had only seen 9 snakes in 30 years of practice, I wanted someone with more experience with herps) and was given his first dose of Panacur. Others here and the vet all said to wait a week to let his electrolytes build back up so that the next feed wouldn't potentially "rot" in his tummy...basically, it needed time to re-build the electrolytes and good bacteria. Offered him two live weanlings (one step up from a hopper) and he ate them with vigor.

This past Sunday was one week since that feed (that he kept down) and this past Thursday he got his second de-worming. This little guy has faced a lot of stress in his short time with me, between acclimating, re-gurging, vet visits and de-worming.

I'll be less stressed about his stress level once I get through all my "firsts" with him. Got through the first feeding, first poop, first vet visit, now I have a first shed.

Thanks for your input! And welcome again!