Admittedly it is totally our own fault for not keeping her humidity at a good level even though we tried to do so with a wet towel on her screen top and by misting but since winter came to minnesota it has been so DRY in the house.
Anyway just a few days ago we got her a new hinged screen top and we did the tin foil treatment as well as put spagnum moss in her enclosure and that fixed the humidity issue....too late though.
My boyfriend and I went out of town for a few days about a week ago and had a friend come over to change her water and towel. We had obviously missed the period when her eyes clouded over when we were gone and then all of a sudden she started to actually shed her skin the same day we "fixed" the humidity problem.
It's a bad shed....
We tried this method the next day:
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hed-No-problem.
It helped enormously....nothing came off on the wash cloth but she started rubbing in her enclosure and the next day all of her of her skin was shed from her neck down. Now she still has to shed the skin on her head and neck.
We tried the " wet pillow case method" the next night but it didn't do anything whatsoever. Tonight we tried the first method again and now her neck skin is starting to come off. (NOTHING is coming off her head or her eyes though)
We are both feeling VERY bad at this point because we know it's our own fault! Her humidity is at shedding levels now (70% but we worry about keeping it that high for so long) We don't want her getting a RI.
Snakes shed from the front to the back and at this point her neck will be shed tomorrow but her head is not budging! Her eyes are messed up looking with dents and some skin has "flaked" around her mouth but IT ISN'T peeling!
I am confident when she gets though this shed she won't have another bad shed considering we fixed her humidity but.....
how can we get her to shed on her head????
I am panicking at this point!
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