Humid Hide, Handling BP & Introduction

[D-.No]

Thanks. I’ve read and reread care sheets but it’s just me and Roxy and there are times I’ve gotten a little concerned I’m not reading her correctly. I do appreciate all the feedback and welcoming me to the boards.
it’s helped a lot!

And yes the other night with her head sticking out of her humid hive I noticed the skin around her neck looks much different than it did the other day.

At the moment she’s not really interested anything but hiding so I gave her some extra moist Sphagnum moss I’m her wet hide and just give her some time.

[Bogertophis]

Thanks. I’ve read and reread care sheets but it’s just me and Roxy and there are times I’ve gotten a little concerned I’m not reading her correctly. I do appreciate all the feedback and welcoming me to the boards.
it’s helped a lot!

And yes the other night with her head sticking out of her humid hive I noticed the skin around her neck looks much different than it did the other day.

At the moment she’s not really interested anything but hiding so I gave her some extra moist Sphagnum moss I’m her wet hide and just give her some time.

By the way, I assume that's Roxy in your avatar, & you should know that the lighter colored snakes like yours (& albinos, especially) are the HARDEST to tell when they're going into shed- that "milky-look" doesn't show up very well because of their normal coloration. So look for that "texture change" and appetite loss (food refusal) as signs. That's excellent that you did notice her neck looked different- it's hard to explain that change to people.

Also, something that confuses many if not most new snake-owners is the shedding "time-line": Snakes cloud up, then they gradually "go clear" for a while before they actually shed- & by that I mean their body secretes moisture between the old skin that's coming off & the new skin underneath, & it's that moisture that makes their tissue-paper-like old skin appear like normal, with the colors more clear again. So many people think their snake must have shed when it actually hasn't, & then when they can't find the old skin, they wonder why, or they try to feed their snake again before it actually shed, & wonder why it won't eat. See?

So you have to wait for your snake to actually shed, after they "go clear"- and it takes as long as it takes- if your snake has fed recently, it can take longer, because both digestion & shedding are competing for moisture in their body. Snakes aren't that good at multi-tasking- And if nothing else, they teach us to pay attention & be patient.

[D-.No]

Wow. You rock! I didn’t notice your response till today but after Roxy had been in her wet hid for over a week she finally has come fully out. Right now she’s chilling inside her log which is technically not a hide, just an additional place for enrichment. She looks slightly bigger but there is no shed.
I didn’t bother her and lift the log or pick her up assuming she is still in the process.

Happy I got to go in her wet hide and properly treat the moss again. Hoping tonight she does some work and gets out of those old clothes lol

But it is tough because she was stashed in a hide a lot longer than I could’ve imagined, I kept on smelling for death (or poop) and was very thankful she started popping her head out the past couple days.

So true about the light color. Right before her second meal I noticed her getting a little dull nothing in the eyes. After a few days in the humid hide I could notice a little transition in the lens.

I’m getting surgery in a little more than a week so I really want to see some skin and some poop before I go under the knife.