Quote Originally Posted by Emily Hubbard View Post
Thanks, everyone!
I have only been soaking her for a half hour, so tomorrow I will try one more soak and try it twice as long and see if that will get that last bit off. It's just been very frustrating. And from her point of view, I can only assume that a slab of dead skin clinging to your body has got to be so obnoxious. I see her crawling all over her driftwood pieces, but it just won't budge.
Really, as long as she's got it off of her eyes, and off of the tip of her tail, it's okay if she has that. Make sure you got the tip of the tail off.

But when I have a new snake that has that kid of awful shed, sometimes I'll let them keep the stuff on their backs or on their chins. (Chins are the absolute worst to pick off. I don't do chins anymore.) Carrying around a harmless but annoying slab of dead skin seems to help their bodies calibrate better for the next shed...

And next time you'll see it coming, so you can boost the humidity. And next time she'll be a little bigger, and it's easier to rub shed off of larger scales. It'll be better next time.