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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Pretty snake!! I love the blue eyed lucies but I ended up with a banana LOL
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by RXLReptiles
It's preferable that they shed all in one piece, but multiple pieces can and will happen. Next time you see his belly getting pink or his eyes get cloudy, before he sheds bump your humidity up to 70% or so and it should all shed in one clean piece.
At least that's the idea, I have a female pastave bee that still has not had a clean one piece shed with me yet. I bump humidity and make sure she's got everything she needs, still shreds her shed every time, never has any stuck, just sheds it in pieces. Oh well, there's always next time.
I'd just look her over really well and make sure she got it all off and there isn't any shed stuck on her body anywhere, and double check to make sure her eye caps shed as well.
I never noticed the hazy eyes or pink stomach and I look at him every day lol. I didn’t know he shed until I picked up his warm hide and there it was.
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by FollowTheSun
Pretty snake!! I love the blue eyed lucies but I ended up with a banana LOL
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Basically the opposite of what I did lol. I really wanted a banana but changed my mind.
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1.0 X Karma BEL- Apollo
1.0 X Mystic x Ghost- Kronos
0.1 X Invisiball Spider- Medusa
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by Jcd5v
I never noticed the hazy eyes or pink stomach and I look at him every day lol. I didn’t know he shed until I picked up his warm hide and there it was.
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Don’t feel too bad about missing it....I’ve missed each of my BEL’s sheds as well. Button doesn’t really pink up either, and the blue eyes make it hard to see the blue phase.
Other Snakes:
Hudson 1988 1.0 Colombian rainbow; Yang 2002 1.0 Corn snake; Merlin 2000 1.0 Solomon Island ground boa; Kett 2015 1.0 Diamond Jungle Jaguar carpet python; Dakota 2014 0.0.1 Children’s python
Ball pythons:
Eli 1990 1.0 Normal; Buttercup 2015 1.0 Albino; Artemis 2015 0.1 Dragonfly; Orion 2015 1.0 Banana Pinstripe; Button 2018 1.0 Blue Eyed Lucy; Piper 2018 0.1 Piebald; Belle 2018 0.1 Lemonblast; Sabrina 2017 0.1 Mojave; Selene 2017 0.1 Banana Mojave; Loki 2018 1.0 Pastel Mystic Potion; Cuervo 2018 1.0 Banana Piebald; Claude 2017 1.0 Albino Pastel Spider; Penelope 2016 0.1 Lesser
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by Jcd5v
I never noticed the hazy eyes or pink stomach and I look at him every day lol. I didn’t know he shed until I picked up his warm hide and there it was.
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To be honest I think many of us struggle to notice when Albinos / white snakes go into shed mode ..
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by Zincubus
To be honest I think many of us struggle to notice when Albinos / white snakes go into shed mode ..
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For both of the ball pythons in my house, They will sometimes do the blue eye phase very quickly. For example my daughter's python, I picked up on it but by the next day it was gone. She missed it and was surprised when it shed. A more reliable indicator is the pink belly phase. We didn't notice the pink belly phase at 1st, because we were new owners, that now we know it when we see it.
I can see why it's easy to mess on albinoes though, my albino Rat snake is already pink all the time So for her the only indicator is blue eyes.
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Exactly! He’s always got a little pink on him so it’s hard to tell. If he ever has any problems I will just add a humid hide.
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by Jcd5v
I never noticed the hazy eyes or pink stomach and I look at him every day lol. I didn’t know he shed until I picked up his warm hide and
there it was...
Snakes are sneaky! It really takes some practice to notice albinos clouding up, missed some myself, way back when I was newer at this & had albino king snakes.
A very subtle sign also when the edge of their scales have an extra outline you can barely see, but personally I rely most on a penlight flashlight across the arc of their
eye in a dark room...the haze shows up very well.
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Re: Meet my first ball python Apollo!
Originally Posted by Bogertophis
Snakes are sneaky! It really takes some practice to notice albinos clouding up, missed some myself, way back when I was newer at this & had albino king snakes.
A very subtle sign also when the edge of their scales have an extra outline you can barely see, but personally I rely most on a penlight flashlight across the arc of their
eye in a dark room...the haze shows up very well.
Should’ve gotten something easier lol. I’ll have to try the flashlight trick sometime thanks!
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1.0 X Karma BEL- Apollo
1.0 X Mystic x Ghost- Kronos
0.1 X Invisiball Spider- Medusa
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