A Fun Project

My corn snake Cupid recently shed and I had a 3 ring binder with page protectors. I decided that I'd start a book of his shedding and growth progress.

First, I flattened out the shed so that the head and eyecaps laid flat. Then I proceeded to wind the shed into the page protector as so it would lay decently flat. I couldn't get it perfect, however, you can still see all of the clean shed.

I then labeled the eyecaps and the tail tip, the name and species of the snake that left the shed, and the date it was found. I check my sheds for eye caps and tail tips any way, I just thought it would be fun to preserve them in a book.

This will become more interesting and more challenging as he grows. I will have to lay and wind the sheds into the page protector more carefully each time to try and show the entire length.

And why I am I doing this? Partially to keep records, to show them off for education programs, but mostly for my own amusement. There will probably come a time when his sheds will totally outgrow the 8.5"x11 page protectors, but he's got plenty of time to grow and fill most of the pages in.

I will post scans of the sheds soon. I wish I would have started it earlier, when I first got him, he's shed maybe 4 times since then.

That sounds great.

That sounds like a cool project. Wish I had thought of something like that from time of my snakes first sheds.

I've actually been keeping Jasper's sheds in ziploc baggies. She's only had two before, but i've got them ^_^

Can you take a picture of the project and post it here? I'm having a hard time imagining what this looks like.. probably just because I am trying and failing to picture such a small shed!

It'll be interesting if you continue this project to see how you overcome the problem of the snake "outgrowing" the page.

Jessicat said:

Can you take a picture of the project and post it here? I'm having a hard time imagining what this looks like.. probably just because I am trying and failing to picture such a small shed!

It'll be interesting if you continue this project to see how you overcome the problem of the snake "outgrowing" the page.

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Yes, it does seem difficult to picture. I will try to scan the shed soon when I have some free time
He's not very big. I'd say he's at or close to 2 feet long. He turned a year old on July 4th, so I guess you could say he's in his "teens". It was easy to get that shed in there. When he gets another foot or so, it will become harder.