Our first shed

[indygunnerguy]

After finally getting him to eat after 5 weeks, he decided to stay in his hide for over a week. I checked on him a couple of times but try not to bother him too much. I just assumed he was digesting his first big meal since it was his first rat. Tonight, I checked on him while spraying and found those milky eyes staring back at me (see pic). So we are officially in our first shed together. What are the basics that I need to know? Beside keeping the humidity around 70%, I'm not sure what else to do. How long should this process take? Will he need any help? Any advice would be much appreciated.

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[Luvyna]

Aww, what an adorable little guy. He sure is in the deep blue zombie-eyes phase of shed! You've done a great job so far by bumping up humidity and leaving him alone as much as possible. The sphagnum moss I see helps too, if you keep some damp sphagnum moss in both hides it will help him. In my experience a BP can stay in the blue phase for roughly 4 days, after which they will clear up and mysteriously look like they are no longer in shed. Usually once the BP's eyes are clear they will shed within the next 24-72 hours. There is a great thread about the whole process here: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...edding-Process

If your BP is healthy and you keep his humidity up at 70%-80% during shed, and the humidity is normally around 55-65% when not in shed, he should have a perfect shed. I hope all goes well!

[indygunnerguy]

Aww, what an adorable little guy. He sure is in the deep blue zombie-eyes phase of shed! You've done a great job so far by bumping up humidity and leaving him alone as much as possible. The sphagnum moss I see helps too, if you keep some damp sphagnum moss in both hides it will help him. In my experience a BP can stay in the blue phase for roughly 4 days, after which they will clear up and mysteriously look like they are no longer in shed. Usually once the BP's eyes are clear they will shed within the next 24-72 hours. There is a great thread about the whole process here: https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...edding-Process

If your BP is healthy and you keep his humidity up at 70%-80% during shed, and the humidity is normally around 55-65% when not in shed, he should have a perfect shed. I hope all goes well!

Thanks! Yeah he's a sweet boy. Thanks for the info! Yeah I have Sphagnum moss in both hides in the warm and cool sides, but he's stayed on the warm side the whole time lol.

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[indygunnerguy]

So I haven't seen him come out since the other day when I saw his eyes were milky. Would it stress him out too bad to lift his hide to check on him?

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[Moose84]

So I haven't seen him come out since the other day when I saw his eyes were milky. Would it stress him out too bad to lift his hide to check on him?

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You should be fine. Lift it up real quick and check. You might find a shed in there. Sometimes they will take a dump when they shed and me personally I don’t like leaving that in there. I would imagine he hasn’t shed yet though. If he was blue on the 17th it will be 3-5 days before it actually sheds. He will probably look clear in his eyes and still dull throughout.


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[Zincubus]

So I haven't seen him come out since the other day when I saw his eyes were milky. Would it stress him out too bad to lift his hide to check on him?

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You don’t have to check each day but as others have mentioned keep looking for the eyes to clear as they then shed the skin a few days later — sometimes as much as five days ( or more in some cases)

As soon as the eyes clear I start spraying each day ( once or twice ) and this seems to guarantee a perfect shed .


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