Alexander Is Shedding

[MissLeMew]

Pedialyte baths should only be given to animals who are SEVERLY dehydrated. This ball python is eating. It is not dehydrated, it is having a bad shed.

New owners often exaggerate the condition of their animal and look for things to be wrong with it. It will probably do more harm then good to give a perfectly healthy snake (other then a bad shed) a bath in pedialyte once a week..

I know, it's not as if I'm trying to make anyone panic. I was just going by my own experience due to my first rescue ball coming to me with cracked scales and wrinkled eyes due to bad dehydration. I had to pedialyte him until it went away, and I force fed him water because he wasn't drinking on his own. And besides, its information any ball owner should know, just in case.

Sorry if I sounded to rash or anything! Not trying to scare anyone.