Hi Guys-
I have been breeding Corns, and Balls for about 2 years now. I have always admired the RTB, they have such gorgeous faces, and most that I have seen are very nice snakes.
Well I went to a reptile show with some extra money ( mistake #1), I saw a very nice looking normal Columbian boa. I held her and she was very calm and didn't mind her hear being rubbed, and almost seemed to enjoy having her chin rubbed. So after 2 -3 hours of looking around and being struck at buy a couple other RTB, I decided to take this girl home. I purchased her from Jo Blow, not a reptable breeder. (mistake # 2)
She still seems to be a very nice snake I can hold her for an hour at a time and she just crurls up around my wrist and hangs out. She does have a habbit of wrapping her body around herself. Almost like she has tied herself into a knot. She can undo it but is this normal? She has eaten three times for me, with one regurge. She held down her last meal fine. She is having problems shedding. She went thru her blue stage and then went normal after a week of not shedding, I added some humidity to the tank and checked the heat. She started to shed on her nose and the skin is peeling back like it's ready to do a full body shed but stopped at her eyes. So she has this loose peice of shed on her nose/head that dried up in front of her eyes. I soaked her, and that didn't help so I put her in a moist/wet pillow case over night to help her shed and when I checked her this morning it didn't work. She was warm and moist but the shed won't come off. Now the shed has curled back over her eyes and started to dry up? Any ideas?
This girl is stressing me out, I have never had any problems with any of my corns or ball pythons. I am also stressing out about IBD? It's like Aids of the snake world. She is just a pet (meaning that I am not planning on breeding her not that pet snakes arn't special too.), but I have my life saving wrapped up in Het pied, and albino ball pythons. Is there any way to make sure she doesn't have IBD?
Thanks
Hockeymom