Re: Little Freyja needs help again!
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Originally Posted by
satomi325
Shed or not, its not normal behavior for a ball python to soak.
I'm glad you said this, I thought there was something wrong with my BP, since everyone always insists you have a bowl large enough to soak in....but he NEVER soaks. In fact, he seems to quite despise it. Occasionally you'll find him with his head hovering over the top of the bowl, but never submersed. He seems to prefer hugging around his moss bowls or hiding in his moss hide. He recently had a bad shed, his first in his new tank and he quite surprised me with it. He didn't act at all like he does when he normally goes into a shed, he was out cruising about, eating, and one day I noticed he was looking very dull, so I figured he was going into shed and started misting his cage. Next day he sheds! I could tell he was going to have a bad time of it as it was coming off in pieces and he was really working at it. I bumped up the humidity some more and the next day tried soaking him for the first time. He hated it. The entire time he kept the three inches down from his head out of the water, propped up against the side of the tub in a clear, plaintive, "Whyyyyyyyy????". And as such, he has a patch on his neck I wasn't able to get off. :\ I've been keeping the humidity up, and he still seems to be actively getting it off. Should I just leave this till next shed or try soaking him to get it off again? He really didn't seem to like me going near his head with the washcloth to try and get it off, I'd rather not stress him if it's not a big deal to have some left-over patchy shed.
