Okay, so my girl is going into shed but she looks extremely dehydrated, wrinkles around the neck and all. I noticed that she somehow managed to get some of her dirt substrate into her mouth so I gently cleaned it out with a wet paper towel. I'm glad that my girl is super docile and let me open her mouth a bit to get it out.
I figure she is dehydrated either from the dirt she got in her mouth or just from the stress of the shed. She's never had a bad shed before nor has she ever been this dehydrated. Again, I think it was from the dirt in her mouth and now that its cleaned up I'm hoping she'll want to drink. So far. nothing. She's never had a problem drinking before, after all she loves hiding underneath her water dish and spilling her water everywhere. Honestly her constant burrowing is probably how she got dirt in her mouth.
I'm planning on giving her a warm soak tomorrow after work to see if that helps and coaxes her into drinking.
Cage temps and all those fun details:
Temps:
Cool Side- 76 fahrenheit
Warm Side: 84 fahrenheit
Hotspot: 90 fahrenheit
Humidity: 66% (I did raise it just a little to help with her shed)
Has a warm hide and a cool hide,
I change her water daily
I use a UVB bulb during the day (she isn't in a space where she can get much natural sun) and a low wattage blue/night/moon heat lamp to keep her cage heated day and night, where I live it is fairly cold and in the middle of winter in an old house without much heating my girl needed some extra warmth. The great thing about the night heat lamp is that it gives off barely any light.
Because she is in shed I have not handled her that much, I wanted to leave her alone to let her do her thing. The only time I have handled her during this shed was to get the dirt I noticed in her mouth out.
So yeah. Dehydrated snake, not fun. Besides a warm soak what else can I do to get my baby hydrated again?