Quote Originally Posted by JLC
Some BP's will eat while in the shedding process. Some will not. Mine won't touch food anywhere near her shedding time.


Lillian...I think maybe your snake may be in for a rough shed cycle this time around...most likely due to living in less than ideal conditions before you bought it. (Just guessing on that, as I have NO idea where you got it.) If I were you, I would hold off on trying to feed, because you may need to get a little more proactive in helping it shed.

Normally, I don't recommend soaking a BP before they begin their shed because that usually makes it worse, rather than easier. But it seems to me as if the poor thing is already having a very hard time of it.

Get a smallish (big enough for your snake to move around in a bit) rubbermaid-type dish with a lid...fill it with barely luke-warm water....just enough to come up about 1/2 of the snake's body width....then place the snake in there...put the lid on...and place the whole thing back in the snake's cage on the warm side. Leave it there for about an hour....then take the snake out and let it slither through a warm, damp towel in your hands. Hopefully that old skin will start to slough off. If not...repeat the process once each day until it does.
I got my snake at the pet store in town. It seemed like they had a good set up, but i dont remember seeing thermometers/hygrometer, so i dont really know.
I'm gonna try giving him another 24 hours to see if he'll shed. And if he doesn't then i'm gonna try your suggestion.
Thanks for all the tips guys!

~Lillian~