Was talking with a girl on my crested gecko FB page and she's been using coconut oil and water to get stuck shed off of her cresties toes. I mentioned that I have a BP who is having shed issues that have resisted my many attempts to solve them and wondered if she had ever used this on snakes.
So this one keyboard commando launches in to me about how my husbandry is clearly terrible. If only I had a humid hide the snake could fix the problem itself.
I said no really, I've tried humid hides, she won't use them. Have also tried misting in and around her favorite hide, putting damp moss in her favorite hide, adding a giant water bowl with a heat lamp above to increase humidity, etc, etc. The only thing that has worked to get the shed off is something I got here... putting her in a shoe box of tepid water with a towel for a little while, and then letting her run through the towel.
So she keeps badgering me... heat lamps are terrible and they dry it out... UTH's are the way to go. I have one I said. Well is it on a thermostat? YOU'LL COOK YOUR SNAKE. I said "Really, I've been keeping snakes over 10 years and BP's since 2007, I know these things," I'm trying to be as polite as possible and this woman just. won't. stop. badgering.
She finally tells me I need to join a ball python group on Facebook so "experts with 100's of BPs can tell me all I am doing wrong" with my BPs (nevermind that the other one is fine and has no shed issues at all). I said "Well how about Ball-Python.net, I've been a member there since 2009."
And that is when she told me that BP.net is "no better than google." At which point I said peace out.
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