So about 2 weeks ago I posted a thread regarding finding a tail-end piece of shed and not being able to find the rest of my spotted python (baby) shed. I assumed it was buried beneath the substrate somewhere. I had combed the top layers and found nothing, and did not want to disturb the snake by uprooting his entire terrarium. Anyway, I just did a full cleaning and found no shed.
The snake's skin does look a little dull (Although i never noticed the telltale blue eyes), but he hasn't missed a single feeding yet and doesn't mind being handled at all so I don't think there's much of an issue. I figured I would bump up the humidity a little bit so that if the shed hadn't been fully sloughed off, the snake would have an easier time. Even if he did somehow shed fully without me finding it, his next shed should be in a week or two so I thought the humidity couldn't hurt. To do this, I did the following:
-Removed snake from tank and misted the substrate, mixing it about thoroughly so that no one spot would be wet, just a nice damp-ish consistency throughout (don't want to cause scale rot!
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-Moved water bowl to the warm side of enclosure
Because of the small size of the terrarium (8x8x8), adjustments had to be made in order to move the water bowl to the other side. I was wondering if this would stress the snake out at all? I simply rotated all the decorations by 90 degrees. Tank has the same format as before, but everything was just shifted 90 degrees (ex: log hide in the back left corner is now in the back right corner, water bowl in front right is now in front left corner). Also, there are still hides on the warm and cool side of the enclosure.
Any advice you can offer is greatly appreciated!
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