Dry Wrinkly skin

nice that will be more fun to watch anyways... i think i was just worried because his neck stretches quite a bit while he was swallowing but i think im just being a wuss cause the pinkies dont leave a lump in the stomach

You can definitely feed fuzzy rats. You want the prey item to be the same size or slightly larger than the biggest part of the belly. Basically, you want to see a small food lump after he eats. Don't let the stretching skin weird you out! It's made to be stretchy for a reason!

thanks man ... so i got the skin to start coming off on the belly but i cant get him to start his nose.... any ideas?

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Originally Posted by royal constrictor

So my balls skin .... no pun intended. His skin is really dry and i can hear his rough scales rubbing on my skin and on objects in his cage... he is also very wrinkled like an old mans face. his eyes were blue several days ago so i know hes about to shed but i have never heard of them becoming this amount of wrinkled... ill post a pic just let me know if you think its normal or not. thnx P.S. hes alot more wrinkled than whats in the pic.[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/8ic4A.jpg[/IMG]

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YOu could try a forced soak just go slow and easy as not to stress him out to much but get a tube with a lid put enough warm probably slightly cooler than you would make your bath water to cover about half his body height put him in and lid on make sure you have holes in the lid or sides first and let him sit for about 10-20 mins do not let the water get cold then open the lid and let him crawl out on his own and dont handle him for a bit he will need to feel safe and secure for a lil bit especially if its his first soak / bath always watch a soaking snake to ensure his head does not stay submerged in water when mine are going into shed I usually raise my humidity to around 70-75% and as soon as the shed happens let it drop back to 60-65%

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thanks man ... so i got the skin to start coming off on the belly but i cant get him to start his nose.... any ideas?

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I wouldn't worry too much about it. It'll come off with the next shed. If you keep your humidity up, it'll flake off.

i know but its an entire shed... his belly has started flaking off and ive been keeping humidity at 75-80% ... he took two rat pinkies today just because my repti store was out of fuzzies and pups. i just want him to do his head then i can help with the rest ... but if worst comes to worst i guess next shed will have to do it now that i know to be prepared.

Also i went and got a digital scale and i want to know how much my male normal should weigh... he was born may 29 so he should be 6 months and hes 17.5 inches. sooo, how many grams body weight should i be shooting for?

200 to 500g.

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They all grow differently, so it can weigh anything. As long as he's nice and plump and doesn't look skinny, I'm sure he's fine. It also depends on how good of an eater he is. I have two July babies. One is 200g the other is 400g. Ones a picky eater, one isn't.

I would soak him, our little one had a horrible shed when we first got him due to shedding the day after coming out of the shipping bag. You can do it in stages. We soaked him the first time and got some of it to peel off his sides and back. Put him back in his home to chill out for a few hours, repeated and got some more off, kept misting his tank obsessively. If you soak him for a while, the skin will loosen up enough that some of the pieces will flake off on their own.

When it came to the head, we just went about it super gently. We went about the whole process over two days, and it honestly probably took us two hours of combined time to tease the skin away. I was mostly concerned that we'd get the eye caps.