I know patience, patience, patience.
I haven’t fed Roxy since 4th of August. It was a very good size meal and so when she started showing signs of potential shed and refused to let me feed her on the ninth I let it be.
She’s gone through the several stages of shed but I’ve never been able to find a skin.
She’s moving around here and there during unusual times of the day, I was hoping she was going to start removing her skin but there’s a part of me that feels that she’s on the hunt.
When I’m tending to her enclosure she flickers her tongue and comes to inspect me or stretches herself to the top of the enclosure. This is behavior that she had not been doing for a couple weeks. Usually she would just tuck her head back into her hide or gradually move into a safe place if she was exposed from any que from my presence.
I’ve been keeping the humidity high and the temperature gradient seems fine as she is moving from hide to hide.
I’m going into the hospital for surgery on Thursday and was really hoping to have her fed and clean her enclosure before then. Can this process go on more than a couple weeks without me stepping in?
Should I be looking for a less impressive shed? I’ve heard sometimes they can ball up and be pretty tiny at the stage. I just feel horribly bad if she’s dying for sustenance and I am the noob waiting for some visible proof of shed.
I will remain patient and hope for the best but it seems from all the information I’ve read to hold off on feeding till I’m 100% Confident the process is complete.
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