Quote Originally Posted by brambow View Post
Thank you for the information. I'm a fairly new ball python owner and reading all the time on how to care for him. He had a bad shed and your process worked well. The only issue that I had, was that when he was in the water he kept his head and about 3 inches of neck out of the water. When I gave him a gentle washing he was pretty good about it but head shy. He still has a little bit of shed stuck to his neck right behind his head. He doesn't like that area touched so is it OK just to leave that little bit of shed on him?
This is a touchy subject with some

Over here in the U.K. it's fairly common to soak after a bad shed or if you take over a snake with stubborn shed or even dehydrated.

In the states you seem to let them swish about in a few inches of water but that seems allows them to have most of their body out of the water and you end up with your situation.. I'm in the U.K and rightly or wrongly I was told to get a well fitting container and lid , put loads of air holes in the lid , fill the container up to within an inch or so of the top and slide the snake in with the lid half on .

The snake will swish about for about 30 seconds but soon relax .
I stay with it for 25 minutes ( cover with a towel to help keep it calm ) .

Then as I described in my previous post have a damp , rough textured towel on hand to dry it slowly .. taking off all the dead skin gently .


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