Just had a question about my leucistic rat snake shedding... I've looked up previous topics, and read up on it a bit, but wanted to get some more opinions.
My Leucistic Rat, Banshee, is almost a year old, and has shed fairly easily until now. It's getting towards summer, and our house gets warm and dry, and as this is my first summer with her, I'm going through it slightly blindfolded. I know that she needs more moisture then she is getting, as she just had trouble with a shed two weeks ago. She's shed in pieces, but made it through shedding completely, except for the veery tip of her tail.
I helped her get the last couple inches of shed off her tail, but the last 1/6 to quarter of an inch on her tail I'm not sure about. Trying to help her rub it off, and the rest of her tail kept feeling as if the shed was still on it, felt like I was still taking off old skin, when it was already shed. Didn't want to be hurting her if that part was dry or something...
To conclude my little speech,
just wondering how to go about determining if she still needs to shed that last bit or not. It appears to be one solid scale at the last tip, and the scaled part ends in that one solid piece. Don't want her tail falling off as I've heard about, but also don't want to try pulling off a natural part of her tail if she's completely fine, and has shed all the way. Would appreciate anything you can tell me, as yes, this is the first time one of my snakes has had trouble with a shed. Trying to be as wise about it as possible.
Thanks!
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