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    My baby BPs possible second shed?

    Her recent shed was the 25/26 (the finishing end of it) of January, could she possibly be going into another shed so soon? The reason I'm asking is that I noticed after I fed her earlier (shes fed frozen/thawed) that one of her eyes was slightly cloudy and she was rubbing that particular side of her face on either her skin or the small tree she likes to chill out on in her tank. I've only had her for one full shed cycle since the day of purchase and when she was starting that first shed she chilled out mostly under her hide so I didn't take any notice to any changes to her until it was close to fed day and I could tell she was going to shed soon from her fading color. The thought that she could've bruised her eye (as weird as that sounds) came to my mind earlier due to her liking to explore her tank at night and stretch to the top of the tank and sometimes she'll topple over and bop her face on the glass.

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    Re: My baby BPs possible second shed?

    Quote Originally Posted by ShadowFox View Post
    Her recent shed was the 25/26 (the finishing end of it) of January, could she possibly be going into another shed so soon? The reason I'm asking is that I noticed after I fed her earlier (shes fed frozen/thawed) that one of her eyes was slightly cloudy and she was rubbing that particular side of her face on either her skin or the small tree she likes to chill out on in her tank. I've only had her for one full shed cycle since the day of purchase and when she was starting that first shed she chilled out mostly under her hide so I didn't take any notice to any changes to her until it was close to fed day and I could tell she was going to shed soon from her fading color. The thought that she could've bruised her eye (as weird as that sounds) came to my mind earlier due to her liking to explore her tank at night and stretch to the top of the tank and sometimes she'll topple over and bop her face on the glass.
    When the shedding process begins, you are going to notice that the skin is getting "dull" and losing its tones, with the big give away being the salmon colored belly scales. Then wait a couple days and you will notice that the eyes will turn extremely milky, and then the eyes will clear up. After that the snake will physically shed it's skin. The process takes around 10-12 days to complete. Its very possible your snake could be shedding again because baby/younger BP's shed quite often, especially if you have been feeding him properly and he hasn't been refusing.

    here is a link to a more in depth description of the process, that can also be found on the sticky tabs on the general BP part of the ball python forum page.

    http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...edding-Process

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