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    Re: Is stuck shed anything to worry about?

    Quote Originally Posted by Zincubus View Post
    Oddly enough that damp towel trick I mentioned above works a treat on retained eye-caps .. you just apply gentle pressure specifically the head region for as long as you can .. the eye caps come off nice and easily onto the towel ..

    Obviously it’s best to try and avoid stuck shed or retained eye-caps by monitoring the humidity but it’s not always possible

    For my part …

    I spray their vivs whenever I'm doing water changes and whenever I think about it but when mine go into shed I spray the viv EVERY day then as soon as their eyes clear and they get their colour back I start spraying a few times each day ... You'll probably find the messy , rolled up lump of skin UNDER his hide afterwards ) .
    Note they get their colour back and the eyes clear a few days BEFORE the skin actually comes off .

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    I've used an old pillow-case, but the towel sounds even better, so long as air can still flow through it easily. Could even take an old towel and sew it into a large 'pouch' for the same effect. I've removed stuck eye caps before, but I ended up doing a long 'humidification' in a damp pillow case, then stroking a wet q-tip across the eye a couple times. The eye cap was already loose at that point, it just needed something to slide it off.
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