Our snake is going through a bad shed.(Head & neck skin remains)

[Superpop]

Tried to help you before...........I hope you listen now.

First of all I want to say that you were on ignore (Which is advice I was given over private message) after our previous interactions. The only reason I even saw your reply to this thread is because I wasn't actually logged in at the time.

What you gave me in the other thread was not "advice"....It was bullying. Since you are trying to be helpful without bullying this time I have decided to remove you from ignore.

But let me give you some advice....I'm sure you probably know way more about reptiles than I do(although that doesn't mean I will always or ever follow what you have to say) but in the future try to have some TACT when responding to people. On a forum such as this many people are looking for advice and sometimes you can be quite nasty and confrontational. You also insinuated things about me that are untrue. I have also found other instances where you responded to people in the same way. If you are going to give advice to people please try to do so in a reasonable manner.

As for the other thread people were giving me advice on things I was not asking for because I didn't want a new enclosure....I wanted a new lid to her enclosure and we ended up finding one that now works. On our own we were able to finally find a "hinged" screen top that fits her tank. The one piece of advice that worked for us in that thread was the "tin foil treatment" which worked far better then the "wet towels" we were using before"(and I just went back to that thread and thanked dr del for that tin foil advice)

This snake isn't even "mine". It's my boyfriends because he is the one who wanted one. While I am an animal lover in general I grew up with "birds" and never have owned a dog or cat(although I want a puggle someday) I am the one doing all this research for our snake so she can hopefully have a good life. He is just the one paying for everything. I did quickly become attached to her though.

Anyway after doing research on here I am confident her vivarium is set up properly.

Moving on....

Keep doing what your doing (you can do it up to 2 times a day) but more might stress out the guy.
Steps:
-Soak like your doing
-After the soak let the snake do it's thing but try to keep him under somewhat control
-Grab a q-tip and start to rub on the snakes face, if he is still head shy then your going to have to "hold him down". One person hold the snakes head (thumb where the neck and head meet on the top and the index finger under the throat. Don't apply to much pressure but just enough to restrain the snake, we don't want an injury to happen)
-Now the second person needs to just warm water to wet the q-tip and rub the front of the nose where the heat pits are. Keep doing this until you see a separation of the white skin from the real skin. From there just pull back on the skin and just pray the eye caps come with it or your looking at a whole different issue.

Hope this helps

Also high humidity is FINE. As long as you don't have condensation on the walls it's ok to keep the tank at 80% to help with shed. I personally keep the tubs at 80-90% right when the eyes go blue until they shed.

PS that crap at Petco is not worth it. Keep with natural humidity and soaking.

Well we already got her that "shed aid" and used it on her tonight. I never thought it would be some wonderful solution but we will see if there is any progress tomorrow.(if not....well we are out of 6 bucks. Oh well)

As for being head shy....she is. she did let my boyfriend wrap a wet wash cloth around his index finger and lightly rub from between her eyes backward but if he tried to start further up near her mouth she got very agitated.

Not only would we both feel uncomfortable holding her head in place but would both FEAR trying to actually grab her skin and try to "pull it off"(everything I have ever read on this forum and everywhere else says thats not good)

Anyway if the spray doesn't work we will continue trying to soak and try wet q-tips but we will never actually try to "peel" her skin off!

I guess If this issue doesn't get resolved soon enough we will have to bring her to the vet and let them get her skin off.