Are incomplete sheds dangerous to a snake's health?
First of all thanks a lot to this forum and all the awesome BP owners here, while I've been doing my research regarding BPs Google took me here multiple times. I wanted to create a topic for over a month now but every time I had a question I'd just do a search here and find my answer. lol For this question I couldn't find the exact answer here or on Google, so I figured it's time to create a topic.
I had my boy Eizen for 1,5 months now. He's a juvenile, not sure exactly how old he is. He's gone through his first shed about 2,5 weeks ago. As you can see from the picture he shed 99% in one piece. I live in a basement, so the humidity is normally high enough - between 60 to 75%. However, there are still 2 or 3 spots left with the old skin. One of them is on the very tip of his tail and another one I spotted somewhere in the middle on his back. I saw a video about Blue Tongue Skinks and it said if they don't shed well they might loose their toes. Obviously sneks got no toes to loose and they aren't lizards but are those 2 or 3 incomplete shed spots as dangerous to a BP? Should I give him a bath? Eizen hates water. He can stay in my hand for hours, so I tried to wet a paper towel and put on those spots but he almost instantly tries to leave. I started misting in the enclosure a few days ago but those spots remain, also with me misting the humidity goes up to almost 80%, which is too high from what I read.
Thanks again.
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