Super dehydrated! :(

[AcePythons]

So my lil 270 gram albino shed yesterday and every other shed has come off cleanly. This one was absolutely horrific when I checked him last night and he had stuck shed all over him. I left it until morning because he's always REALLY active at night (much more than my others) and he's super fast so I decided to wait until today to soak him when he'd be easier to handle.

Well I just opened his tub and he's SUPER dehydrated looking. Wrinkly all down his body

He has plenty of clean water and the humidity is fine, so I'm really not sure what happened.

I have him soaking in some warm water right now, do any of you have some other suggestions? I tried searching "dehydration" in the forums but didn't get much =/

Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

[RichsBallPythons]

Pictures can help but with him having problem shedding, its more related to that.

Boas when going into shed can look dehydrated and might be what your seeing with your lil BP.

Soak him in a warm water or use the wet pillow case trick to get the skin off

[Dave Green]

Cat, I never really had shedding issues when I lived in NJ. Now that I'm in the desert I use Venta airwashers in my rooms to keep the humidity up but they still have issues shedding if I don't spray them. Once I notice they are going to shed I mark their bins and spray them every day. It works well for me...

[AcePythons]

Pictures can help but with him having problem shedding, its more related to that.

Boas when going into shed can look dehydrated and might be what your seeing with your lil BP.

Soak him in a warm water or use the wet pillow case trick to get the skin off

Yeah he's in the warm water right now. I'll go see if I can snap a pic and post it.

Cat, I never really had shedding issues when I lived in NJ. Now that I'm in the desert I use Venta airwashers in my rooms to keep the humidity up but they still have issues shedding if I don't spray them. Once I notice they are going to shed I mark their bins and spray them every day. It works well for me...

Yeah I spray occassionally when I see the humidity startin to drop on the hygrometer.

Lemme go see if I can snap a pic.

[RichsBallPythons]

Might be good idea to get in habit to just spray ALL the snakes daily.

I only measure room humidity not the tubs. I just spray in the morning before work and when i get home from work and thats it.


On rain days room is 50-60% so i dont spray. Since doing this during winter sheds have been great when room was in the low 20%.

Just a suggestion

[AcePythons]

Here is the pic (sorry I couldn't get closer...he's a very lovely escape artist and I only have one pair of hands LOL)

[RichsBallPythons]

Here is the pic (sorry I couldn't get closer...he's a very lovely escape artist and I only have one pair of hands LOL)

Thans more related to the shed issue. As the wrinkle areas might be stuck sheds. IF soaking dont work now, then tomorrow do pillow case

[AcePythons]

Thans more related to the shed issue. As the wrinkle areas might be stuck sheds. IF soaking dont work now, then tomorrow do pillow case

Ok, thank you. I'll try that. Yeah I was quite upset to see it was so bad. Every other shed he's had was just so perfect. In fact all of my snakes have been perfect shedders and vorcacious eaters haha. So you could say this was one of my first "problems" ...

Thank you for the advice. I just wanted to make sure he was ok. I think I'm going to be switching from paper to pine AND paper today to help with humidity.

[Vypyrz]

Thank you for the advice. I just wanted to make sure he was ok. I think I'm going to be switching from paper to pine AND paper today to help with humidity.

I have heard pine and cedar can be toxic to snakes. I have never used either so I can't confirm it. Maybe someone with first-hand experience will post...

[Moofins07]

I have heard pine and cedar can be toxic to snakes. I have never used either so I can't confirm it. Maybe someone with first-hand experience will post...

I imagine she meant to say aspen instead, and just typed in pine by accident. That's what I'm hoping, anyway.