white back and agressive?

[Rick Plowman]

my ball pyton has feeding reguarly and no signs of any illness but the past 3 days (she ate about 5 days ago) she has been coiled up ready to strike laying on top of her wodden hiding log. I generally leave my snakes alone for the next two days to let them digest. Anyway today i noticed on her back starting from her head to about half way down her body a white glaze. Does this aggression and white glaze mean she is getting ready to shed?

[Capray]

..she might be shedding. How often are yo feeding her? Please post a picture!

[Annarose15]

We really need pictures to know what you mean by "white glaze".

[Rick Plowman]

We really need pictures to know what you mean by "white glaze".

http://t.co/Eaee98rx

[snakesRkewl]

The shed might be about to be called a stuck shed

[Annarose15]

The shed might be about to be called a stuck shed

I'm leaning this way as well. Is there a reason you don't have any substrate in the tank? Without substrate, there is no way she has enough humidity for a proper shed, which could also account for her discomfort/attitude.

[Rick Plowman]

I was told my the guy I bought her off was all I needed was paper towels. What substrate should I be using?

[loonunit]

Paper towels work fine, you just wind up going through a lot of them. And if you live in a dry part of the country, they'll dry out the air in the tank. But you do want them to cover the entire bottom of the tank, including under/around that water bowl.

So, I notice there's a bit of shed on that water bowl. How long have you had her, and has she ever shed for you?

Because I think that "white glaze" is probably stuck shed, because the humdity was too low... it's hard to be certain from a picture. Is she still striking at you? You can use gardening gloves to pick her up. Is the white stuff sort of a crinkly layer of extra skin?

If yes: then I would fill a bathtub 2 inches deep with room temperature water, put her in it, and make her swim for 5-10 minutes. (She'll try to escape, but just keep putting her in the water until she's good and soaked.) And then you either peel it off if she's cooperating, or put her back in her tank and see how much she gets off herself.

One of the problems with paper towels is they do dry things out. So in the future, if you see her going into shed, you want to get a spray bottle and spray the tank down once a day until she sheds.

[Rick Plowman]

Awesome thank you. I've just put paper towels by where the under the tank heater was but ill for sure start covering off it. I will also do the bath tub trick

[martin82531]

How are you measuring your temperatures and humidity? Do you have a thermostat? I would also check these links out when you have some time.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ll-Python-FAQs
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...edding-Process
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...hed-No-problem
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...ius)-Caresheet
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...t-Thermometers
http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...Husbandry-FAQs