I think there are some snakes that are just fine with eating when they are about to shed - if yours is one of them and she's shedding nicely, I wouldn't worry about it
I have an albino BP and here are the ways I can tell when he's about to shed that have nothing to do with colour:
- He stops roaming his enclosure at night
- He is inactive and lethargic when being handled
- His scales kind of stick up where his body bends and he gets a sort of puffy, slightly wrinkled bit of skin around his throat/neck
- He prefers to stay in his warm hide most of the time and stops switching hides
I prefer to avoid shining light or even exposing my albino BP's eyes to bright light because they have no melanin in their eyes to protect them from damage from overexposure to light. Even if they make their pupils slits they aren't getting much protection because of the lack of melanin - the red in their eyes comes from the blood vessels in the eyes that are showing through and are not hidden by colouring from melanin.
A lot of human albinos and albinos of other species have eye sensitivity and while there's no documented proof that BPs experience the same thing I'd guess that without melanin they likely have similar issues.
Gorgeous BP btw, she looks like such a sweetheart!
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