Shed issues

[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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