Signs for Shed Intervention/Worrisome Behavior

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If you're not so lucky, the process of digestion uses up the snake's hydration to get the job of digestion done, & as a result the shed process suffers, if the snake is unable to secrete moisture between the old & new skin (as they normally do automatically to facilitate the shedding process), & the snake ends up "stuck", shedding in a zillion pieces or even needing some help & lots of extra humidity (incl. a soak) in order to get rid of the old shed.

Of course, when a snake has JUST eaten a meal, & you need to help them shed, the extra activity can also cause them to regurgitate that meal- so for all these reasons, I personally avoid feeding snakes in shed.

She still is avoiding her humid hide and is continuing to behave rather odd. She is hyper irritated and nervous, so I’m gingerly inspecting her enclosure and not finding anything. I do smell something a little funky, very mild, but it’s there. Not sure if it’s just that I’m keeping the humidity in there so high for so long.

Just ordered a couple size upgrades for her warm and cool side hide. Good chance after this shed. she’s going to need a little bit bigger of a safe space so I took that initiative considering right one she gets back to normal I’m going to give a thorough cleaning and change her substrate from aspen hopefully permanently.

I guess the question is how long do I wait to interject and give her a soak or another method at persuading her to come out of her old skin? It’s been over a month, but I guess I have to add on a little additional time since she’s been fed twice during this period.


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