Luke is in shed :D

[dshin963]

Soo I went to check on Luke today and finally his eyes have clouded over,
normally I feed him today however I think I am going to hold off until the day he sheds :)

[stephanbakir]

As far as I know, there are no reasons to not feed a snake while he's in shed (some snakes do get stressed) but allot of snakes take food while in shed without any complaints. Every snake I have ever owned always take food while in shed.

[stephanbakir]

Soo I went to check on Luke today and finally his eyes have clouded over,

Been a while since his last shed?

[dshin963]

well its just his underbelly has been pink for a while so I knew it was coming soon :)

[stephanbakir]

Nice, you might want to save those full sheds, once you get a few give some schools a call, they love taking skins off your hands to use in reptile discussions.
Ontario usually teaches their kids about reptiles in grade 7-9.

[dshin963]

ahhh fair enough :) and last time his shed was horrid... lets hope this time it is better I have the humidity at 99% when it drops to 70 i plan to spray again

[stephanbakir]

Err, not sure you should maintain his humidity that high, we tend to keep the himidity more or less stable, and when they are in shed we give them a large water dish to submerge themselves in if they choose to, some snakes don't thrive in high humidity.
(not 100 on ball pythons)

[Wolfus_305]

Good luck with the shed! post pics if you can :)

[Ch^4]

Err, not sure you should maintain his humidity that high, we tend to keep the himidity more or less stable, and when they are in shed we give them a large water dish to submerge themselves in if they choose to, some snakes don't thrive in high humidity.
(not 100 on ball pythons)

Not 100% RH for any snake or they'd be swimming... ;)

[stephanbakir]

I meant not 100%, freaking french keyboard lol

[Ch^4]

^^ lol...I just realized I couldn't read on one of my other posts (Profile: Scarface).

[dshin963]

ahhh fair enough soo what should i spray to when hes shedding?

[stephanbakir]

Just a spray bottle with water in it, keep it in his enclosure 100% of the time, at the warmer end, so you aren't spraying him with liquid ice:P (the temperature of the water will be close enough to his temperature to not startle him too much)

[dshin963]

Just a spray bottle with water in it, keep it in his enclosure 100% of the time, at the warmer end, so you aren't spraying him with liquid ice:P (the temperature of the water will be close enough to his temperature to not startle him too much)

lol not what I asked but good advice will start doing this :P I was asking what humidity I should have it at?

And Wolfus Thank you I will have some after pics forgot to take before :@
Hope I can catch him doing it it this time... that sounded bad...

[stephanbakir]

Huh? i might have missed something?

[SPARTAN 77]

well its just his underbelly has been pink for a while so I knew it was coming soon :)

yep, when my snake's belly gets pink i know it will be in the next 2 weeks or so from when it fist appeared.

[dshin963]

lol it was like that for a month :P

[stephanbakir]

Humidity should be 60-80% for ball pythons in I'm not mistaken(been a few years) i kept mine at 70% back when I was a kid.

[Lankyrob]

Not in shed 55-65% is fine, when ours is showing signs we raise the max up to 75% but still let the enclosure "dry" to about 60% before respraying.

[dshin963]

ahhh ok will start doing that see learn something new every day :)

[dshin963]

Luke shed this morning :) he had a itty little piece of his tail left which came off,
and other then that he shed in two pieces which is much better than last time :D

[Ch^4]

Just make sure he doesn't have any skin left on the tip of his tail as this will result in loss of circulation and potentially a stubby tail. Also, check for retained eye caps.

[dshin963]

Already did it is all off now just took some soaking and a little rub :)