My BPs first shed

[jeffjr464]

mine had an incomplete shed today, i had to soak him, his tail end came off pretty easily but i had to pick his head clean, and he let me! lol ,his eyes heat pits, his whole head and he seemed to be enjoying it, i was having a problem with humidity, i put a bigger water dish in under the CHE

[Gooseman]

mine had an incomplete shed today, i had to soak him, his tail end came off pretty easily but i had to pick his head clean, and he let me! lol ,his eyes heat pits, his whole head and he seemed to be enjoying it, i was having a problem with humidity, i put a bigger water dish in under the CHE

don't put it directly under the CHE, CHE's along with heatlamp are notorious for drying up the air with the heat. I would get a bowl with a larger surface area and put it in the middle, or slightly towards the cool side so the ambient temps can raise humidity without too much of it being dried out from the heat source.

[hardball]

Thanks. LOL i showed it to my mom when she got home, and she was against the whole snake thing, but she was very impressed i could tell she wanted to say it was cool but she didnt want want to admit it too loud.

[sp1133]

My BP charlie's eyes just turned blue about two days ago, and i am waiting for him to shed now! i dont really know what to expect, but he is staying in his hides...going from one to the other, and he looks really clowdy and not really clear. I hope everything is good...the humidity is about 70%. How long do they normally stay in this stage? he also ate yesterday but missed the first strike. Anyways, i'll keep you posted! and i plan on keeping my shed as well

[hardball]

I think I was actually out of town when my BP went into blue. I was in Orlando for a few days and I was calling my mom periodically to make sure she was checking up on his humidity and temperature. I thought he would probably be going into shed soon because it felt like it should be about time, and I thought he was starting to show a little dullness but no blue eyes or anything. I just lifted up his hide off of him to the other day and there was his shed and poop. But I beleive they are usually in blue for about 3 days then eyes go back to normal and they shed in a day or 2.

[jeffjr464]

i don't use a heatlamp, i have a che on my coolside, and a uth on my warmside, i had the small exoterra water dish in there, the one that looks like rock, i took it out and put in my large terra dish, that the girl at the pet store suckered me into btw lol, the large dish is in the middle towards the cool side with about a half to a quarter of the water dish under the che, it's keeping my humidity around 60% with no misting, im finally gonna post pics tonight, cause ive been waiting for 2 weeks for my wife to get my digital camera back here