My poor baby...

[Ckrumn]

My baby started shedding sometime yesterday morning/afternoon. This is as far as his shedding has gotten. I have checked his tank over and can't find any skin in it. What can I do to help him out. He looks so sickly right now with all this sagging skin. Thanks for all the help.


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[rufretic]

If you can bump his humidity up, that's huge for getting good clean sheds. At this point I would give him a soak for a couple hours in a small tub. Use luke warm water, try to match his temp so you don't shock him, about an inch deep. Make sure the tub breaths with cap on, you could just poke a couple holes to be safe. Put the tub with him in it obviously, into his enclosure to keep the temp right. After a couple hours you can release him back into his enclosure and he should be able to get it off.

[Ckrumn]

If you can bump his humidity up, that's huge for getting good clean sheds. At this point I would give him a soak for a couple hours in a small tub. Use luke warm water, try to match his temp so you don't shock him, about an inch deep. Make sure the tub breaths with cap on, you could just poke a couple holes to be safe. Put the tub with him in it obviously, into his enclosure to keep the temp right. After a couple hours you can release him back into his enclosure and he should be able to get it off.

I will put him in a bath. What is a good temp?? Luke warm to me means about the same temp you would use for a baby. Would that work??


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[Reinz]

Put him back in his cage and be sure his humidity is 70 give or take. And leave him alone. If he doesn't have any object(s) with some mild abrasive to it consider adding a rock or piece of wood.

He was probably taking a break when you saw him. He may shed tonight for you.

[iLikeSneks]

Start by checking your humidity where you keep it, it should never be less than 50, when they go into shed I like to pick it up to 60-70 by misting the cage. If you keep up humidity then you won't run into this.

For the immediate problem, a bath for ~15min in warm water then rubbing its skin gently with your hands should make it come right off.

The serious part is if the eye caps (scales over the eyes) came off. From the picture kind of looks like they did but I'm not sure. If they didn't you'll need to assist in removing those too, but I've never had to do that myself so I'll let someone else explain that.

[Reinz]

No need to soak yet. He was just getting started. Give him a chance. If you want to meet halfway, put a bowl in his cage big enough for him to crawl in if HE thinks it's necessary.

[Ckrumn]

I am very new to snakes. As in, only had him for a week and a half. First snake. I'm very paranoid about everything with him. I don't want to lose him or mess him up. Thanks for the suggestions.



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[iLikeSneks]

Do you have a humidity probe inside his cage?

[Reinz]

I am very new to snakes. As in, only had him for a week and a half. First snake. I'm very paranoid about everything with him. I don't want to lose him or mess him up. Thanks for the suggestions.



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Snakes manage to shed fine in the wild all by themselves.

Even if the shed only sloughs off in patches it's not that serious unless there is a band of skin going all of the around like a jewelry ring or his eye caps don't come off. Then the next step is a damp towel to let him crawl through while you apply gentle pressure.

[Ckrumn]

No. I need to go get some. I have a wet towel over half the screen top and two bowls of water in the tank for him. We have a 4"x6" under the tank heater and a 75w heat lamp on the warm end of the tank. He is in a 20 gallon long tank. The temp is reading about 87 degrees right now. I also keep misting the tank. I'm used to iguanas, this is so much different and I feel in over my head right now.


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