How come when a snake sheds, all the others housed around it start their shed as well

in the last 2 years i have noticed this phenomenon many times, does anybody know why this is?

I second this, the same thing happens with my snakes as well.

My guess is that they are on similar feeding patterns which leads to similar growth rates.

Mine do this too! My lesser just shed this morning, yesterday my corn snake, het pied, and RTB shed. My milk snake is in the process of shedding, it's about halfway done.

I've always thought this is a little weird! Could be feeding schedule? But I have so many different kinds of snakes and they grow differently so that'd be odd.

Zeus is deep in blue and Louise's belly is super pink! The new guy just shed before I got him so he probably won't be joining in.

Mine is in shed right now too!!

Mine are never in shed at the same time. Maybe like 2 at the same time but not the others, all random. Like now, I have one of my Pastels in shed the others aren't.

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Originally Posted by zues

My guess is that they are on similar feeding patterns which leads to similar growth rates.

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I always thought the same thing. All of mine of similar age seem to shed within a week of each other.

....None of you are women, I take it. :rofl:
We experience this "phenomenon" as well. It's quite aggravating sometimes when everyone is on an emotional roller coaster at once...and there's not enough chocolate to go around. -.-
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But I've noticed my snakes do the same thing. Madison, my baby BP, shed Monday. Tuesday Cheesecake, my corn snake, was blue, and Wednesday Cleo was blue. I'm waiting for my last BP to go blue XD
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Originally Posted by shelliebear

....None of you are women, I take it. :rofl:
We experience this "phenomenon" as well. It's quite aggravating sometimes when everyone is on an emotional roller coaster at once...and there's not enough chocolate to go around. -.-
:irkd:

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I have 3 girls in the house ( only one deals with this ) and I am NOT looking forward to when the little ones catch up with their mother. One is ENOUGH. :tears:

mine just shed on Tuesday

I have saw that there is a pheromone in the secretions between the skin maybe that is something of a trigger? The article mentioned rainbow boas specifically as a prelude to mating but maybe there is a relationship to other species as well? Just a thought.

ref 'the beauty of snakes' BBC

Alex

I'm willing to just chalk this up to the same reason that in a house full of women, eventually their cycle's will begin to align.

Just one of those weird things in nature that don't really make sense.