Corn snake shedding problems

[chairman]

In the 1990s, cornsnake keeping in FL was accomplished by placing snakes in an aquarium with newspaper for substrate, a hide, and a water dish. No heat source was used. When you saw your snake go blue, you placed the snake in a plastic container that was half full of water, put a ventilated lid on the container, and soaked the snake for about 2 hours. The snake would then shed. That's just how it was done. I raised snakes like this for years with no issues.

Snake keeping has changed a lot since then. I now keep my corns in an enclosure with a couple inches of a mixture of coco coir/ecoearth and sphagnum moss, with a large cork flat for a hide, a water dish, and a basking lamp. I keep a portion of the substrate moist, not wet, and let other areas dry out. I also keep isopods in the enclosure to manage waste. The snakes are also doing just fine, but the setup is much more convenient to manage.