Is this Normal?

One of my snakes is rubber her head and sometimes her body mostly on the glass in the tank like she's shedding, but she doesn't look like she'll shed? Eyes aren't glossed over, no pink belly, and one major notice that she's about to shed is on the tip of her tail becomes cloudy.
I've only seen her do this when she's trying to shed.
Any advice/opinions? I can take pictures of her if needed.

My snakes did that when they were younger. Probably just exploring.

True, now that i'm certain that the temp and humidity are at least almost right. (battling humidity still, likes to stay at 40-50%, mostly at 40%. Hoping that settles when I put some bedding like aspen or eco earch, etc, in there). Could be that she's hungry, or maybe even a pre- lay shed? Not sure if she'll lay or not, all I know was that for a while she was caged with a male for a while, etc. Although, I'm not sure how pre-lay sheds and all that goes so..
Also, thanks for your reply!

They aren't active If they're about to lay. Maybe just hungry or you're stressing her out having another snake with her all the time

I moved the male out about a month and a half ago or so by now, long story why they got caged together and it wasn't my doing... I'm going with that she's hungry then..
edit: the hygrometer says it's right at 60%

What kind of hygrometer are you using? Also aspen isn't good for humidity so I would look into other options.

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Its a cheapy one off from ebay. Works good though(i like it better than the ones from the petstores). Right now i have paper towls down, and was thinking of doing part aspen and eco earth (since i have both anyway). Maybe add some mulch in the eco earth? I dont need it too much higher in any of my set up.

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If you need to up the humidity still, have you tried using a larger water bowl (wide&shallow) if the space allows it, and moved it to the warm side of the enclosure?

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If you need to up the humidity still, have you tried using a larger water bowl (wide&shallow) if the space allows it, and moved it to the warm side of the enclosure?

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Yep, although in one I can have a bigger water bowl but probably not when I add what I want to in it(more hides mostly) and they're all centered mostly, hers is slightly moved towards the warm side.

Acurite 00891 is a thermometer/hygrometer you may want to look into. They cost $12 on amazon and some Walmarts carry them. They have a probe you can put on hot side and then the whole unit can sit on the cool side for cool temp and humidity. I have done salt tests and temp tests on the 3 of the ones I have and when I buy new ones I'll put them next to the ones I tested and they have all been spot on except for 1 that read -40 which acurite replaced for free. Then of course I sterilized before putting in another herps enclosure. I currently own 11 of them lol.

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Acurite 00891 is a thermometer/hygrometer you may want to look into. They cost $12 on amazon and some Walmarts carry them. They have a probe you can put on hot side and then the whole unit can sit on the cool side for cool temp and humidity. I have done salt tests and temp tests on the 3 of the ones I have and when I buy new ones I'll put them next to the ones I tested and they have all been spot on except for 1 that read -40 which acurite replaced for free. Then of course I sterilized before putting in another herps enclosure. I currently own 11 of them lol.

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I thought they were more into the $20s or so range.. alright then, cool. I'll definitely at least get one soon(maybe others later when I get an actual job). I checked my walmart a bit ago and I don't think I saw any acurites. I'll look again though, my Walmarts recently started to change everything..
Thanks!

Assuming your current hygrometer is accurate and that your humidity is still indeed too low, you can also try buying some spaghnum moss! It's a dried up brick of moss for like 8 bucks, you break off a part, put it in water where it greatly increases in size, and then put the resulting moss damp into a hide on the warm side! Lots of bang for your buck, those small bricks turn into a truckload of moss : )

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Originally Posted by Morjean

Assuming your current hygrometer is accurate and that your humidity is still indeed too low, you can also try buying some spaghnum moss! It's a dried up brick of moss for like 8 bucks, you break off a part, put it in water where it greatly increases in size, and then put the resulting moss damp into a hide on the warm side! Lots of bang for your buck, those small bricks turn into a truckload of moss : )

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Aha, I already have some, well that and another kind, I just forget what the other one it.. I got it at petco so. I use it for the humidity boxes, but I could put some around in the tank. I also, on three(out of four) have the duck take and aluminum foil on the screens, which helps but I just got duck tape to fix it(one tape I was using decided it didn't want to stick well for some reason), so I'll be fixing that here in a moment.

I also just did the eco earth+a little bit of the small animal paper bedding(no bleach) on one side, and on another aspen+the bedding in another snakes terrarium to see how it would go. Humidity was too low til I misted it, should be good now, can't tell at the moment since she knocked down the hygrometer, however when it was still a bit too low she stilled seemed to liked the set up lol, at least two hours later she's still exploring, and she's actually drinking water for the first to third time i've seen her drink it, definitely first time i've seen her soak in it. :D

I was using aspen with a wet sponge and my humidity was 45-55. Switched to reptibark and I can get it to hold around 60 without the sponge and just misting down the cage once a day. Much less work and I like it much better for it's looks and behavior when soiled.

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I was using aspen with a wet sponge and my humidity was 45-55. Switched to reptibark and I can get it to hold around 60 without the sponge and just misting down the cage once a day. Much less work and I like it much better for it's looks and behavior when soiled.

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I thought of getting reptibark to mix in the eco earth, but figured this time I want to try this idea I had, since i just wanted to do it and had these in my house already- instead of wait to go to the pet store that I already need to go tomorrow or Tuesday and I didn't know how much humidity the reptibark would add- always looked like a lot due to seeing the humidity in the bags.
Thanks for telling me this!