Shedding help

trailblazer295 · 11-10-15, 10:22 PM

Hey

My BP for the first time has not shed completely. His humidity has remained above 50%. They are generally between 50-60% expect when I clean the cage and replace the substrate and it spikes. New bedding change spiked it and he shed soon after in a bunch of dry flakes spread all around the cage where usually he has one to three tight bunches of dried skin but complete. His eyes and tail tip are okay it's just pieces on his body should I be worried or let them come off naturally? I tried moistening it and running my finger but I'm scared to pull it off backwards as that's the looser part and hurt him. Because it's not a critical area I didn't and to try to hard and figured a stuck shed piece on his body isn't a critical matter. He is on cypress mulch and has a large water bowl.

**Tsubaki** · 11-11-15, 03:40 AM

Give him a bath, use a soft bathing cloth after he soaked a while and gently stroke along with his scales. It should come off. Try raising his humidity to 65/70% next time he has to shed, see if it comes off in one piece?

trailblazer295 · 11-11-15, 06:07 AM

I didn't even know he was in shed this time. Missed seeing him in blue.

**EL Ziggy** · 11-11-15, 07:47 AM

It is odd that he had issues shedding for the first time in the same enclosure with the same husbandry. All of my snakes shed perfectly with an ambient 50-60% humidity. You could add a hide with moist sphagnum moss and see if he gets it off on his own, or as Tsubaki suggested, a soak and a wet cloth should do the trick too.

**Aaron_S** · 11-11-15, 08:06 AM

Don't sweat it.
If the head/eye caps and tail are shed it shouldn't do any harm.

trailblazer295 · 11-11-15, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EL-Ziggy

It is odd that he had issues shedding for the first time in the same enclosure with the same husbandry. All of my snakes shed perfectly with an ambient 50-60% humidity. You could add a hide with moist sphagnum moss and see if he gets it off on his own, or as Tsubaki suggested, a soak and a wet cloth should do the trick too.

Werid part is the cypress was changed not long ago about 2 weeks so it has been higher humidity.

KSTAR · 11-11-15, 12:17 PM

Mist the mulch with warm water and mix it around and make sure you cycle the mulch around so all of it is hydrated and moist so that way the humidity cycles all through your enclosure and you should be ok if not soak him and he should be fine aswell