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    Re: stuck eye caps

    Quote Originally Posted by VooDooDoc View Post
    Apparently he is still on his hunger strike so maybe Ill try a soak or wet pillow case otherwise wont worry too much about it I guess.

    I was out of town when he went into shed at first and the dimmer on one of his heat lamps croaked which made the lamp go full blast. There is a thermostat also so temp didnt get too high but it seems like the humidity gets destroyed when the lamps cycle on at full blast and off often, when kept to low intensity, even if they are on constantly humidity stays up better. So he spent 3-4 days at like 30% humidiry, bumped to 70% when I got back but apparently too late.
    Excellent observation. You should be fine with a warm damp towel or warm wash cloth wrapped in a towel and some light handling to get the skin off. the trick is to get moisture between the layers. Don't worry too much about the caps yet if they don't come of yet, it's layers of caps we are to fear.

    Have you tried a lower wattage bulb, or slowing the airflow through your enclosure. It worked wonders for my "too big" enclosure. Also I keep a lamp on a dimmer right over the water for ambient and humidity boosts.
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    Re: stuck eye caps

    Quote Originally Posted by arialmt View Post
    Have you tried a lower wattage bulb, or slowing the airflow through your enclosure. It worked wonders for my "too big" enclosure. Also I keep a lamp on a dimmer right over the water for ambient and humidity boosts.
    A lower wattage bulb would work well too, but I like to have the higher wattage in case it happens to get colder. The dimmer's effectively make it like a lower wattage one, but have the ability to crank it up if needed. I'm pretty sure my problem was the busted rheostat which was stuck on high I think that really killed the humidity leading to this whole mess.

    At any rate I have good news, he seems to have gotten the eye caps off and all the stuck shed. I stuck him in a tub with some water, and threw a wet t-shirt in over top and put the whole thing in his enclosure. Only let it sit for a few minutes due to unrelated reasons, but that seemed to be enough next day he's good as new. Now if only he would eat, but that's a whole other discussion.

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    Re: stuck eye caps

    Yeah! Glad his eye caps came off.
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