it has been a week since we handled our snakes. too busy cleaning, painting, and fixing the house after 9 hours of work. i have checked on them every day . made sure temps and humidity were alright. roswell was hiding under his waterbowl rock, so i didnt see much of him, and roo would just pop her head out of her tiki god statue. it was time to change the substrate, and do a major tank clean. i noticed over the week both snakes went into a shed. roswell was actually just coming out of his skin when we pulled him out. he sat in my g/f's hand for a few minutes getting out of the old skin. it was pretty cute to see him use my girlfriends hand as a tool to remove his hold skin. she wrapped her hand around his body holding the old skin, and he wiggled out of it. he seemed to like the help she offered. roo however had a very bad shed. about 60% of it still remained, and what did come off were just flakes. after cleaning the tanks and adding new substrate, i decided to soak the snakes. roswell didnt want any part of the water, but roo seemed to enjoy it very much. she made no attempt to get out of the water. roswell was sausuge butting, so i wanted to loosen him up a bit. we let roo soak for about 20 minutes, and then put her back into her very moist fresh substrate. i checked on her again last night after returning from work, and she still has most of her old sin still attached. tonight i am going to soak her again a little longer, before feeding, and let her run through a wet towel. if this does not work to remove the old skin what else can i do?
roo has only had one good shed i can recall. most of her shed leave flakes here and there on her, but not nearly as much as is on her now. she has been in nice humidity level, averaging around 60%.fior a few weeks now. how many sheds will it take before she starts shedding the whole skin? she was in a larger tank, and i know the humidity was down around 50%. like i said she has been kept in a nice humid tank for a few weeks. any advice?
her eye-caps have all come off so far.. just the skin on her body is the trouble.