Shed issues

[therunaway]

Okay, so you guys may or may not have seen my thread about my new ball, well he went in to shed, the day after I got him (last Wednesday) and he has had the shed on him since then, and he has a "spinal piece" of the shed gone, the eye caps, and all the head, but the sides and tail are still stuck, and the shed is turning white! I've tried the soak, anything else I can do?

[satomi325]

1) Put him in a warm damp pillow case for 30 mins to an hour.

Or

2) just wait for the next shed and get the humidity up

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[therunaway]

I totally forgot about the pillow case trick!! Thanks Nikki! I'm assuming the shed will slide on off?

[satomi325]

I totally forgot about the pillow case trick!! Thanks Nikki! I'm assuming the shed will slide on off?

It should come off if he moves around

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[therunaway]

Well, I got most of it off, just a tad bit on the tail & some on the neck. :o , try again tomorrow or let it go naturally.
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[I-KandyReptiles]

Honesty, I'd try to get only the stuck shed off his tail and leave his neck alone for him to shed next time.

[Ryan Chin]

I recently just had a completely stuck shed for my first time ever keeping balls. What I did to remove it was warm up some water to about 85-90F, fill a sterilite or similar shoebox size tub with air holes, add a wash cloth so they have something to rest on and rub against. Let sit for 20-60 min depending on how much shed and where I'd say, also make sure to keep warm for the duration or the water will quickly get cold and the wash cloth will be freezing I did this by placing it on top of some thermostatt'd flexwatt set at 90F. I feel this also helps keep up the humidity up to a point where it really helps the bp skin absorb the moisture. Of course you must be watching him in the tub at all times in case anything might happen(I did since it was my first time at least)

Then from here I hear it usually goes two ways, either the ball has worked off the shed himself or you can assist him with removing by gently rolling his skin back and it'll eventually get the picture that you're helping it.

With mine since it was a fully stuck shed went a bit slower, also I didn't submerge him in water to his belly, my washcloth was quite large and soaked most of it up. So he wasn't swimming, more like sitting in a sauna. I started with the loose already peeling skin on his neck then firstly rolled off the head skin and eye caps, make sure to be very careful before the eye caps make sure the skin is moist enough and removes easily. Then slowly work your way down from neck to tail.

First soaking I was only able to get about 2/3 of the skin off including the head, after removing that I was going to wait a day before removing the rest...by morning he had worked the remainder of it off himself.

Come to think of it he probably would have been able to do it once the head skin came off but I was babying him.

Hope this helps.

[therunaway]

Honesty, I'd try to get only the stuck shed off his tail and leave his neck alone for him to shed next time.

I recently just had a completely stuck shed for my first time ever keeping balls. What I did to remove it was warm up some water to about 85-90F, fill a sterilite or similar shoebox size tub with air holes, add a wash cloth so they have something to rest on and rub against. Let sit for 20-60 min depending on how much shed and where I'd say, also make sure to keep warm for the duration or the water will quickly get cold and the wash cloth will be freezing I did this by placing it on top of some thermostatt'd flexwatt set at 90F. I feel this also helps keep up the humidity up to a point where it really helps the bp skin absorb the moisture. Of course you must be watching him in the tub at all times in case anything might happen(I did since it was my first time at least)

Then from here I hear it usually goes two ways, either the ball has worked off the shed himself or you can assist him with removing by gently rolling his skin back and it'll eventually get the picture that you're helping it.

With mine since it was a fully stuck shed went a bit slower, also I didn't submerge him in water to his belly, my washcloth was quite large and soaked most of it up. So he wasn't swimming, more like sitting in a sauna. I started with the loose already peeling skin on his neck then firstly rolled off the head skin and eye caps, make sure to be very careful before the eye caps make sure the skin is moist enough and removes easily. Then slowly work your way down from neck to tail.

First soaking I was only able to get about 2/3 of the skin off including the head, after removing that I was going to wait a day before removing the rest...by morning he had worked the remainder of it off himself.

Come to think of it he probably would have been able to do it once the head skin came off but I was babying him.

Hope this helps.

That was my original plan, worry about tail, leave neck alone. It shouldn't be long before he sheds again! I couldn't keep the pillowcase warm, so I turned the dryer on and sat on their, he was nice & warm when I felt the bottom!

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[kitedemon]

be careful of using pillowcases it should have a very open weave wet cotton expands closing the openings in the weave and sealed with water it is air tight snakes can get pressed into it and suffocate. Make sure it has a very open course weave.

[Ryan Chin]

That was my original plan, worry about tail, leave neck alone. It shouldn't be long before he sheds again! I couldn't keep the pillowcase warm, so I turned the dryer on and sat on their, he was nice & warm when I felt the bottom!

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In my experience balls respond better to having their upper body skin removed head/neck rather than lower body skin, in terms of lethargy and eating. The only thing I would be worried about on the lower body is the area around the cloaca, just make sure that area is clean and not harboring any build of feces or the sort.