shedding schedules?

[mark and marley]

ok so i thought Marley was nearing shed,pink belly but i was examining her yesterday and didnt have a pink belly or blue eyes and i looked for some shed skin,to my dismay i found none.im guessing it was my rooms lighting(ir heat lamp and white comp screen) that made it seem pinkish.
how often does your bps shed.Marley hasnt shed for like 46 47 days.is this a sign i need to up the size of her food.
i dont know her exact weight but ive been feeding her fuzzies.they are a lil smaller than her thickest point.ive offered a small mouse before and refused,two days later i offered her a fuzzy and no hesitation.the next week i offered her another small mouse and she didnt hesitate to gulp it down,but two days later i smelled regurgitation and removed it.
i have her humidity and temps pretty much spot on the only thing i think of that could of made her regurg is one of my lil cousins was in my room tapping on the glass when i walked in my room and i seen Marley staring at him.
after that shes been eating fuzzies no problem.
ill save the trouble and answer spot on.
cool side75-81
ambient air 79-83
warm side 88-92
when i got her she weighed 119 and was like 15'',shes put on weight on is filling out nicely i dunno how much she weighs now but def was more and shes 20'' now.
sorry if this was unorganized but you get the jist of it.oh and i know they dont have a set schedule for shedding.

[Kinra]

As you said there is no normal shed schedule for BPs. Mine seem to shed every 1-2 months though. It's odd that your little girl regurgitated a small mouse. All of my '10s eat rat pups and are fine being handled a day after eating. See if you can get her to take a hopper mouse, she should be able to take food larger than a fuzzie at this point.

[Skittles1101]

I agree that for her to regurge a small mouse is very odd. They can start rat pups practically from hatchlings. I'd try those, they will help her put on weight faster, IMO fuzzies are way too small, which is probably why she's growing slowly, hence the shedding issue. They all grow at different rates. Mine generally shed every 1 1/2-3 months.

On and the shedding process can take weeks. Sometimes from the time I see a pink belly (if I catch it) to the time they go blue it's almost 2 weeks.

[kitedemon]

I am not sure about the re gurge it is something to keep an eye on for sure.

The shed cycle is about 10 days from the first moment of starting to the final shed, it varies a bit but generally is ten days often the beginning isn't noticed. There is a period of slight hazy appearance then a red/pink tinge to the belly this deepens and the hazy fall to milky with milky blue appearing eyes. There is a partial clearing that follows the redness reduces or goes away and the eyes seem to clear there is often still a subtle hazy appearance to the skin. That is followed by the the shed itself.

Your animal might just be in the clear stage, or you may have missed the signs. I'd guess that Marley is just cleared and will shed out in a day or three.

Keep an eye on her about the regurge however there are a lot of causes some external (stress rough handling prey to large too cool temps ect.) but some can be internal as well (parasites, disease ect.) it appears that your temps and such are fine so either too much food or too frequent feeding might be it but also internal problems too or she just up chucked a meal. Just keep an eye on things if she does it again then worry just track the husbandry and keep notes of what was fed and when if you don't already it will make problem solving if it is needed easier later on.

Some snakes will eat during a shed, that is fine as long as it is not too big if you offer during a shed offer small or not at all. The skin about to shed is not as flexible as new skin and if fed late in the cycle it can cause a obstruction that the snake cannot manage to get the shed over. That can cause all kinds of havoc as it dries out and contracts. It is rare but has happened. Light feedings during a shed or non at all.

[snakesRkewl]

Tapping on glass shouldn't cause a regurge unless they were trying to scare the bajeezers out of the snake, and even then typically it would just ball up.

Snakes rarely regurge but it happens occasionally and when it does you should wait 2 weeks before feeding again so the snake can recoup the ability to digest properly again.

If your fuzzy rats are as big as mine then your feeding the appropriate size IMO
My 2 week old fuzzies generally weigh about 20-25 grams.

[Skittles1101]

Tapping on glass shouldn't cause a regurge unless they were trying to scare the bajeezers out of the snake, and even then typically it would just ball up.

Snakes rarely regurge but it happens occasionally and when it does you should wait 2 weeks before feeding again so the snake can recoup the ability to digest properly again.

If your fuzzy rats are as big as mine then your feeding the appropriate size IMO
My 2 week old fuzzies generally weigh about 20-25 grams.

I believe he means fuzzy mice, correct me if I'm wrong Mark

[mark and marley]

yeah fuzzy mice,and i know for a fact she can take bigger.the first time she rejected it im sure it was because it was different prey.
this wasnt normal tapping on glass,he was causing a ruckus,it was kinda more like banging and shaking the table she was on,i dont know how long he was doing it before i came home but i assure you nobody is allowed in my room while im gone now.
my girl is super shy when it comes to eating,i dont get to watch,shel take the prey,constrict,as soon as she thinks its dead shel either stare at me or take the prey somewhere a lil more hidden,which is in her tank pretty much three inches from any given point.if she looks at me like "do you mind,im eating"ill leave the room and come back later but on the rare occasion she doesnt mind ill watch or carry on with my business in the same room but with putting a sheet to keep some of the light from my comp or tv from entering.
thank i didnt know about the clear phase and she might be in that.i keep a lil calendar book documenting her from the first day i got her.i feed her every 5-7days,ill offer her another small mouse on her next feeding.man those things stiiiiinnnnkkk.

[Alexandra V]

yeah fuzzy mice,and i know for a fact she can take bigger.the first time she rejected it im sure it was because it was different prey.
this wasnt normal tapping on glass,he was causing a ruckus,it was kinda more like banging and shaking the table she was on,i dont know how long he was doing it before i came home but i assure you nobody is allowed in my room while im gone now.
my girl is super shy when it comes to eating,i dont get to watch,shel take the prey,constrict,as soon as she thinks its dead shel either stare at me or take the prey somewhere a lil more hidden,which is in her tank pretty much three inches from any given point.
thank i didnt know about the clear phase and she might be in that.i keep a lil calendar book documenting her from the first day i got her.i feed her every 5-7days,ill offer her another small mouse on her next feeding.man those things stiiiiinnnnkkk.

Yup, there is definitely a clear phase in the shed cycle where it almost doesn't look like they're in shed at all, it'll usually be about two or three days. If she regurged I would advise you to skip a feeding (skip the next feeding, and then just feed her the one after that) to allow the digestive flora in them to regenerate. Otherwise they will have a tough time digesting the meal and will more than likely just regurg again.

[mark and marley]

Tapping on glass shouldn't cause a regurge unless they were trying to scare the bajeezers out of the snake, and even then typically it would just ball up.

Snakes rarely regurge but it happens occasionally and when it does you should wait 2 weeks before feeding again so the snake can recoup the ability to digest properly again.

If your fuzzy rats are as big as mine then your feeding the appropriate size IMO
My 2 week old fuzzies generally weigh about 20-25 grams.

yeah i waited to weeks after regurg to feed again