Bad Shed Due to Low Humidity With Small Piece Of Skin Left On Eye

[blackonblack]

I have been struggling with keeping humidity to proper levels. I am running a 20G with foil over the top with a CHE and a UTH. I mist a few times a day and have a large bowl of water. Humidity keeps creeping down. My snake spends most of the time in its warm hide and I should have misted the hide but I didn't want to distrurb my snake during shed (I am new to snakes and its a baby). He looks crispy so I soaked him today for a few minutes and submerged his head. I noticed a small stubborn piece of skin on the eye. It looks partial and not a full eye cap. Only one is stuck. I tried gently brushing the eye with a moistened que tip to no avail. I made sure to be extra careful. If I bump up the spraying efforts should this piece come off on its own?

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Gently using a moistened que tip as I had tried is safe right? After all the eye is still protected by that stubborn piece of shed. I didn't try too aggresively.

[steve_r34]

I wouldn't touch the eyes .. u can get a zip lock container and poke holes in it fill it up with some warm water no to much maybe a third of the way and sit ur snake in there for about 15 min .. keep it some where were the water wont get to cold with in those 15 min and do it every other day for a week and if it don't come off I wouldn't sweat it .. it should come off in the next shed just make sure next shed u get humidity up there for the week he is in shed ..

[blackonblack]

I saw several videos on youtube of people successfully removing eye caps with a que tip? Should this be avoided all-together? I was very careful with I tried and applied minute pressure.

[200xth]

I would not start messing with his eyes yet. It'll most likely come off with the next shed. Last thing you want to do is damage his eyes over something that'll probably fix itself anyways. If it doesn't come off with the next shed, you can start looking at safe ways to help him out.

And yep, upping the humidity will help with that.

[blackonblack]

So a stuck eye cap isn't something that needs immediate fixing? I didn't want to wait a number of weeks until he sheds again. Personally if I was the snake id want it rectified yesterday. I hope he continues to eat with the lack of vision how soon after complete shed should I feed? I soaked him and most of the shed is slowly coming off as moves about. I'm sure I didn't damage his eye. He regularly brushes his eyes against his body when he coils up. I'm sure his scares are far more abrasive than a moistened cue tip

[steve_r34]

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he hunts off of heat .. the eye cap will be fine till next shed .. just make sure u get him to shed right next time around