Hi! I know exactly why he's having a bad shed. You explained in your previous thread how you bathed your snake when it was in the blue. I explained in the same thread that bathing a snake before a shed will strip the natural essential oils of the snake needed to shed properly. And because you bathed him before, he's having a poor shed now. The lubrication to allow the skin to slide off has been washed away. Next time don't bathe your snake and let him do all the work. If theres any shed still stuck AFTER the beginning if the initial shed, you can assist him then. But before is a no no.

If you can't get the rest of his shed off now, just wait till the next shed cycle and get the humidity up. He should shed everything then.


Quote Originally Posted by Lenny's mom View Post

But other then that he is doing great i noticed his eyes were gray the other day and he was he looking dry when i got home today i work night shift so i ran some warm bath water and sprayed shedding assistance stuff i got from the store in it put him in and he swam around not that it was really deep enough for him to do much swimming and tried to climb the sides after 10 15 min i took him out he ran around on my hands for a minute i misted his home with the same stuff. them 2 lol.
Quote Originally Posted by satomi325 View Post

Also, giving a bath prior to shedding is actually bad. It strips the natural oils of the snake that assist shedding. So if your snake is shedding in many pieces rather than one whole piece, that's typically not normal. If a snake is having a bad shed, giving a bath then is more appropriate. But there are less stressful ways to assist a bad shed. For example, you can put him in a warm damp pillow case for an hour. The friction of moving around in the pillow case will rub the shed off.


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