It's The Shed thread.......

[infernalis]

Here we shall post pictures and shedding experiences. All members are encouraged to participate and post your shed or shedding pictures. Have fun.

http://www.mypetforums.com/buck/shed.jpg

[gonesnakee]

An old pic of the back of the snake room door, Mark

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Misc%20Reptiles%20and%20Fish/DSCN4606.jpg

[gonesnakee]

Some Woma Python pics, Mark

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/HERC1.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN7890.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN7891.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN7892.jpg

[gonesnakee]

More...

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5516.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5523.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5528.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5533.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5538.jpg

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Woma%20Pythons/DSCN5541.jpg

[infernalis]

that's a great collection of pictures.!!

[infernalis]

More...

http://www.mypetforums.com/buck/dekayished.jpg

http://www.mypetforums.com/buck/lurch.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/snakes/flameshed.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/snakes/helpshed.jpg

This little infernalis shed in his feed box while eating!

http://www.thamnophis.us/snakes/nalisshed.jpg

[citysnakes]

An old pic of the back of the snake room door, Mark

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Misc%20Reptiles%20and%20Fish/DSCN4606.jpg

thats serious.

[shaunyboy]

looks like 3 snake shed coats hanging there gonesnakee...!!
cheers shaun

[gonesnakee]

If I find shes that are all stretched out nice or unroll easily I save them all.
They then get bagged up & hnaded out to kids & reptile shows & demos.
Kids tend to think that its pretty frigging cool.
Back when I used to have a lot more snakes there could be days where a dozen adult snakes shed, even then I threw away more than were kept.
They tend to piss/crap in them alot as well, which makes for an easy clean, but not a shed one wants to keep LOL THX Mark

[Aaron_S]

Mark you had to come in with that picture and ruin the thread! Noone is going to compete with that :P

[spankygaaarge]

i didnt think they ate while shedding......... is that normal for all snakes ???? spanky hides when hes shedding and doesnt come out at all..........

[infernalis]

I have a few freaks that eat and shed....

The blue eyes are a giveaway...

http://www.danceswithreptiles.com/PG1/images/1flake.jpg

http://www.thamfriends.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=17&pictureid=643

[Will0W783]

Most snakes do not eat while "in blue" (clouded up phase before the skin actually comes off) and generally while the skin is peeling off in the wild they would not be actively looking for food. But I have several that will pause in peeling off their skin to chow down. They are generally very hungry when they are done shedding because it takes a lot of energy for them. I do have three snakes that will eat no matter how cloudy they are- a Macklott's python, a superdwarf retic, and a leucistic Texas ratsnake. They just want to eat all the time, any time...lol.

[gonesnakee]

I would have to say in my experience just as many will eat in shed as not.
I have a few that will sometimes & other times no as well.
In captivity we tend to feed more frequently than required more often than not, nothing in the wild is on a weekly schedule afterall LOL
It actually never hurts to miss a feeding now & them or skip everyone for an entire week even or go 10-12 days instead of 7 etc.
Some snakes get real pissy when in shed & others gooble it up just like always.
Mark

[infernalis]

That's one thing I love about reptiles, If I am too tired, I can "blow off" feeding them.

The damn mice and rats on the other hand, I have to care for every single day, or they will eat each other. no "blowing off" the rodents.

[Will0W783]

Yeah, that's why I'm a reptile person anymore. So much easier and more rewarding IMO. And they don't poo every 2 seconds like rodents do..lol.

[Lankyrob]

Ditto - in my situation its good to have animals that dont need constant care - snakes are sooo cool too!!

[Will0W783]

Oh I know. I absolutely love them- such fascinating creatures. My sd retic, Baby, went for a photo shoot with a model Wednesday night. We had a blast- if I didn't know better I'd swear Baby loves the limelight...lol. She does seem to enjoy interaction at least. And the model was raving over her. I love giving snakes good publicity; too many people are afraid of them and/or don't bother learning about them.

[Lankyrob]

We are taking ours to local playgroups and schools to show them off and try to teach the children and their parents about snakes.

[infernalis]

We are taking ours to local playgroups and schools to show them off and try to teach the children and their parents about snakes.


Kudos to you Rob!

[Lankyrob]

Thanks Wayne

[infernalis]

check this crazy picture out....

http://www.thamnophis.com/thamphotos/data//500/medium/momma_says.jpg

[Will0W783]

That is bizarre Wayne- what has it done, shed into itself?

[Lankyrob]

Kinda looks like it has shed then crawled back into the shed skin??

[Will0W783]

Yeah, that is what I was thinking.....

[infernalis]

Exactly what the snake did, crawled back into its own shed like a cat chasing it's own tail.

[infernalis]

http://www.reptard.info/pic/milk.jpg

http://www.reptard.info/pic/shed1.jpg

http://www.reptard.info/pic/shed2.jpg

http://www.reptard.info/pic/shed3.jpg

http://www.reptard.info/pic/shed4.jpg

[Evra0914]

An old pic of the back of the snake room door, Mark

http://i398.photobucket.com/albums/pp67/GONESNAKEE/Misc%20Reptiles%20and%20Fish/DSCN4606.jpg
DUDE!!!! Tht's wicked! L=

[percey39]

this is one of the sheds i woke up to today. Its off my yearling scrubby, she is always a perfect shedder and will also eat any time food is on offer.

[Nafun]

My bp always leaves his sheds rolled up like an unused condom.

[shaunyboy]

That's one thing I love about reptiles, If I am too tired, I can "blow off" feeding them.

The damn mice and rats on the other hand, I have to care for every single day, or they will eat each other. no "blowing off" the rodents.


must admit i like that to wayne. " oh im knackered so i'll feed them tommorrow " like mark said its good to keep feeding times jumbled up.hatchlings i feed religiously every 7 to 10 days.the rest get fed when it suits me best.sometimes 7,10,14 days apart or anything inbetween.
cheers shaun

[infernalis]

With the garter snakes, they do the "food dance" almost every day. http://ball-pythons.net/forums/images/smilies/banana.gif

[Evra0914]

My bp always leaves his sheds rolled up like an unused condom.
haha wow!:)

[marvelfreak]

Nine years and for the first time i got to see my 8'4" jungle shed.
First two her shedding, then one next to a tape measure. Last me holding it.


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[gonesnakee]

A shed is not an accurrate measurement of the snake though.
Sheddings will be considerably longer in most cases due to the stretching involved.
I'm guessing if you measure the actual snake it will be closer to 7ft.
Cool that you finally caught it in the act, Mark

[ineedsoap16]

One of my balls will do the unused condom thing too. It is weird. Then again, she is a hider when it comes to sheds unlike the other two balls. She does the whole thing in her hide, maybe thats the reason.

Ryan

[Reptile_Reptile]

She shed just around 1pm and it was a full and perfect shed got to see the whole thing... then unfortunatly the post shed poo lol

[Reptile_Reptile]

darn 5 pic maximum lol

i will be posting better pics once i let her rest

[presspirate]

Very nice, I like watching them crawl out of their skin.

[marvelfreak]

She looking sweet. My Borneo i can touch for threedays after she sheds. Cranky as hell, but the rest of the time a little angel. Even in shed.

[presspirate]

You a Danzig fan or just the Misfits? Or maybe you just like the picture?

[Reptile_Reptile]

misfits... and i like the shirt it's apart of my suit

[nanna]

Dakota did not shed all in one piece but we left and a couple hours later she was clean and there were lots of small pieces in her tank. Still trying to figure out how to post pictures from this stupid blackberry sorry

[Lankyrob]

As most of you know i am in the room with my snakes about twenty hours a day and can see into all their vivs from where i am sat.

I also have the vivs open for cleaning/poo checks/water topping up etc a few days each week.

I got one of my young corns out tonight and he has shed!! I have noticed no cloudy eyes, no signs off "blue" whatsoever!!

I think i have a secret shedder!!!!

[Damion930]

That's the trouble I had with my retic I had fed him and he set up in his hide and hadn't come out for four days then he poked his head out and I could barely see his eyes wher clouded sneaky buggers

[Ch^4]

That's funny! I'd love to see pics! My new little Mojave BP was in the blue this morning, and I'm usually pretty good about know a couple of days in advance....sneaky sneaky

[NennaMeerkat]

Our corns used to do the same thing! Sneaky little buggers.

[presspirate]

He was just tryin to keep you from worrying Rob!

[Reptile_Reptile]

my corn does that sometimes too. just surprise me with a big healthy shed :) i think its cool

[infernalis]

Last few days I'm finding little sheds in the baby cages. The albinos are the hardest to notice, They look almost the same when they are ready to shed..

[NennaMeerkat]

Though I have never had a true albino I can well imagine on how hard it would be able to tell. But don't their eyes still get cloudy?

[TeaNinja]

both my dum and my bp decided tonight was the night to shed. the python didn't shed in 1 piece, but had a clean shed. he/she got her head and neck skin off in pieces, then the lower 2/3 of her body was one piece. she also took a smelly crap ;)

the dumerils of course had a perfect shed. his head piece came off, but the rest of his entire body was one piece. he looks Awesome!! i'll grab some pics later. the bigger the snake, the slower the metabolism i guess, because the entire shed process for my dum took about Twice as long. seemed like everything was slowed down.
now he's GUZZLING water lol.

it's crazy, last time i measured the snake he was Just about 5'6", his shed just now is 6'4" lol. i'll have to take a new birds eye and use the snake measuring program to find out how much he grew.

http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/nigmashed2001.jpg
http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/nigmashed2004.jpg
http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/nigmashed2003.jpg

[whoaxmary]

:] can't wait to see pictures of them now that they've shed.

[infernalis]

Cleaning things up, all shed pictures and posts should be here. ;)

Thanks.

[bo2as]

heres my first shedding expeirance a while back. ive never really caught them shedding after this one apart for one or two assisted shed while they were on meds ..

[infernalis]

Nice set of pics...

[Sapphyr]

Oh wow~ These are all great pics~ c: I'll try and catch my BRB's next shed. I found this last shed wadded up in a big, scaley ball in his cage. I found it kinda stranged it was wadded up, but oh well~ As long as he shed.

[Lankyrob]

My BP tends to leave a wadded up but complete shed along with a nice poo in his waterbowl.

[Sapphyr]

My BP tends to leave a wadded up but complete shed along with a nice poo in his waterbowl.

Ha! Well, I think mine wadded his up and crapped in his humidity box. It stunk somethin' foul, I'll tell ya.

[TeaNinja]

My BP tends to leave a wadded up but complete shed along with a nice poo in his waterbowl.

funny, mine did the EXACT same thing. he shedded the top 1/3 of his body in shreds, then got the rest in 1 piece, and it was wadded up in his hide. then he took a big crap and roamed his cage for a while.

[emilie]

Baby, the cornsnake just shed today, the whole process took 7 days

[Lankyrob]

Sweet, love the little corn snake sheds.

[emilie]

hey! that sounds inferiour"ish" well i have a ball python now so na na na na na na
tee hee joking ;)

[Lankyrob]

Lol, not meant to, the baby corns skin just seems really tight cos of the little scales and stay together real well. My daughter likes taking them to school more than the big skind as they dont fall apart so quickly.

[TeaNinja]

i have a 6'4" dumerils shed hanging on my wall lol.
when they shed they pull the skin inside out. i was bored one day and i took like 5 minutes pulling it all the way back through so it wasn't inside out lol.

[gonesnakee]

Any sheds that are not soiled & easy to stretch out again I save in a big bag & they get handed out at shows & demos for kids.
When the collections all up in full swing its not uncommon for numerous snakes to shed the same day, they are just trash to me but kids LOVE them, Mark

[infernalis]

Anyone remember my snake that died by crawling back into it's own shed?


http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/thamnophis/84501-fatal-shed-kills-albino-morph-grrrrr.html



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[TeaNinja]

Anyone remember my snake that died by crawling back into it's own shed?


http://www.ssnakess.com/forums/thamnophis/84501-fatal-shed-kills-albino-morph-grrrrr.html



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WOW, that's messed up O.o
i wonder why he felt like going back into his shed

[presspirate]

One of my scrubs tried to eat his own shed. I had to snip it wit a pair of scissors.

[infernalis]

wow! my lizards eat their sheds all the time, but I have never seen a snake try it..

[emilie]

Lol, not meant to, the baby corns skin just seems really tight cos of the little scales and stay together real well. My daughter likes taking them to school more than the big skind as they dont fall apart so quickly.
I think the reason I like snakes so much is because we used to have a teacher, Mr.S, who would bring in his collection of corn and garter snakes with him to class all day once a year. He would bring different sheds too and let us feel them. It ensured no student was afraid of snakes.

And Wayne that is horrible, I'm so sorry.

[belovedboas]

This all the pics I have of sheds but will try and get more up!!:)
http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l609/belovedboas/sheds.jpg?t=1301405442http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l609/belovedboas/shed.jpg?t=1301405442

[infernalis]

Wayne that is horrible, I'm so sorry.


When dealing with as many snakes as we do (the '08 breeding season over 400 babies in the house) it's inevitable that some will die, some go out rather "normally" and then there is the bizarre.

It's only the really freakish ones that I photograph.

Whenever possible, if I can figure out why they died, I make it a point to share my findings..

[emilie]

Whenever possible, if I can figure out why they died, I make it a point to share my findings..
True, point taken, and I do appreciate how much you share.

[belovedboas]

just a fewhttp://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l609/belovedboas/026.jpg?t=1303338891http://i1126.photobucket.com/albums/l609/belovedboas/025.jpg?t=1303338891

[Lankyrob]

We never get to keep ours - they disappear each time lil one goes to school :rolleyes:

[presspirate]

I keep a the whole ones. When I can.

[infernalis]

Seems the place to put this... A shed (legally obtained) from the worlds rarest reptile.. close to extinction.

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/SFshed1.jpg

http://www.thamnophis.us/random/SFshed2.jpg

[Max713]

Whoring these out a little more
http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/MotoMax777/Scarlett/DSC_0210.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/MotoMax777/Scarlett/DSC_0213.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/MotoMax777/Scarlett/DSC_0181.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/MotoMax777/Scarlett/DSC_0188.jpg

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa100/MotoMax777/Scarlett/DSC_0168.jpg

[gonesnakee]

I see the tape measure beside the shed FYI for those that do not know out there (not saying you do not know) a shed is not an accurrate measurement of a snakes length as they are always longer sometimes by 1/3 or more. Cheers Mark

[TeaNinja]

i'm pretty sure that's common knowledge. my 5 1/2 foot dum gave a 6'5" shed last time.

[Max713]

I see the tape measure beside the shed FYI for those that do not know out there (not saying you do not know) a shed is not an accurrate measurement of a snakes length as they are always longer sometimes by 1/3 or more. Cheers Mark

Definitely something that should be reminded regularly, as I see the mistake made all the time. But yes I was aware, she measures in somewhere near 7'. That shed measured 8'4". Anybody that has ever tried to measure a Carpet, or other active species for that matter, will know why I say "somewhere near"...

[Lankyrob]

I see the tape measure beside the shed FYI for those that do not know out there (not saying you do not know) a shed is not an accurrate measurement of a snakes length as they are always longer sometimes by 1/3 or more. Cheers Mark

Didnt realise it could be as much as a third - had previously heard 10-15%. Never tried measuring any of my snakes i tend to go by the shed length minus 15%.

[Max713]

Didnt realise it could be as much as a third - had previously heard 10-15%. Never tried measuring any of my snakes i tend to go by the shed length minus 15%.

That's funny, 8'4" - 15% = 7'
Sounds like I may be right on the money :)

[sickvenom]

Snake skin is very elastic when fresh, therefore it is impossible to quantify how far your shed may be off from the acutal length of your snake. The snake will stretch it out during the shedding process and we stretch it out during unrolling/handling.

[gonesnakee]

I think how much they soaked prior may help the stretch factor as well LOL Cheers Mark

[TeaNinja]

http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/bpshed2005.jpg
http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af184/teaninja/bpshed2003.jpg

[redsided]

Snake skin art!:p

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/5130/p9080259.jpg

anery red sided Before:

http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/9598/ssssnakes016.jpg

After:

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/31/shedn.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/686/pa080618.jpg

http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/6748/pa080635.jpg

http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/2769/pa080636.jpg

[redsided]

More to come, gotta go

[redsided]

Flame BEFORE AND AFTER

before
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b283/chucknkelly/skinkbaby004.jpg

after
http://img560.imageshack.us/img560/4647/pa080616.jpg

[redsided]

Concinnus shedding.

http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1455/pa040535.jpg

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/5818/pa040536.jpg

http://img692.imageshack.us/img692/5772/pa040537.jpg

http://img3.imageshack.us/img3/3829/pa040538.jpg

http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/668/pa040542.jpg

http://img545.imageshack.us/img545/8759/pa040548.jpg

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