Shed help

Ok, my ball python, which i've had for over 3 weeks, is about to shed. His eyes turned the cloudy blue color, so i need to know what to do and when to do it. i've seen people post about gatorade...when do i soak him in that? When do i increase humidity? do i need to feed him on the regular schedule? anything else i need to know?

You don't need to soak it in gatorade. If you provide a water dish big enough for him to soak in, and your temps are correct, he will soak as he needs to. A few days after the eyes clear up, he will shed. They usually won't eat when in shed. I always wait until they are done to feed them.

Gatorade?? I've never heard of using that...

Gatorade? Though a good soaking in water is all my BP needed, the gatorade thing is interesting.

Some people use gatorade to rehydrate dehydrated snakes. Supposedly it works well. I've never tried it, and am skeptical of it.

Ohhhh, okay, I remember reading that on the leopard gecko forum a few years ago for dehydrated geckos. I thought it'd be kinda funny to see a BP sitting in a dish full of neon yellow water...

eh well some ppl posted about that on the kingsnake.com forums. That place just went to hell i guess. their boards are down and everything...haha.

humidity should be around 80 right?

Humidity should never be around 80%..thats way too high and you would be risking an RI. Humidity should be between 50-60% no matter if your snake is shedding or not.

i raise my hummidity to between 65 and 70 when the shed is about 4 days away and it has never cause any problems for me infact they've usually had perfect sheds.
but 80% is definitly to high

I've actually heard pedialite is best....

Hi! Our Lucy, who is about 5 months old, has gone thru 3 sheds with no problem and no interference on our part at all. I try to mist her tank for a few days in a row when she looks ready to go, but honestly, I have never seen her soak once. In fact she seems to hate her body touching water ( although I have seen her drink several times). She doesnt like it hot either, moving away from heat lamps and heat pad areas. Our temp is about 85 days and 80 nights for the winter and humidity between 40 and 60%.

Living in Tucson, our humidity often runs very low. When Phil went into shed for the first time since I've had him, I tried keeping the humidity up in the terrarium, but he still ended up with a very patchy shed and large chunks of old skin still sticking to him. I finally gave him about a half-hour soak in some warm water, and that loosened everything up enough.

I've noticed, too, that if you need to raise the humidity up, try placing a shallow dish of water over the under tank heater. The water stayed nice and warm (not too hot), and because it was warm, it evaporated faster and hence raised the humidity in the terrarium better. Just keep an eye on things to make sure, as already pointed out, that the humidity doesn't go too high.