Quote Originally Posted by Physician&Snakes View Post
I have never found it necessary to intervene before a specimen has attempted to shed, but I am also fortunate to live in an area with decent humidity and am pretty good at keeping my cage humidity up so yes I can see why someone would intervene in that time frame. Thanks for going into more detail, I wanted to keep it simple since Pythonminion nailed it down pretty good, but further clarification is always good.
No worries, I just wanted to be absolutely clear for anyone who reads this thread in the future that there is a normal, natural, delay of a few days between coming out of blue, and actually shedding the skin. I would hate to see someone injure their snake thinking it was in trouble because it returned to a normal appearance but hadn't shed yet.