Please Help!

hi
i was just wondering what is the best way to remove eye caps that have not come off after a shed
thanks

I am not an expert but try a moist towel over his head. I have heard using some olive oil on q-tips gently swabbed over the eye caps. Final resort, go to a good reptile vet. You don't want to be fooling around with the eyes too much and have an accident happen.

In the future raise the humidity or spray with something like Shedease. Just a quick thought, try spraying ShedEase on his head and see if you can gently remove them.

O.K. try letting your snake crawl through a damp cloth, if this fails try soaking your snake in about 1/2inch of warm water for half an hour, after soaking let her crawl through a damp cloth again.

I'd be inclined to pop the snake in a ventilated lunchbox with a wet flannel to rehydrate the retained skin and let it work the eyecaps off for itself. If that doesn't work, try using wet cotton buds on the eyecaps because more invasive methods can damage the snake.
Here's the result of the snake-o-bath on a bad shed.

diamondlil said:

I'd be inclined to pop the snake in a ventilated lunchbox with a wet flannel to rehydrate the retained skin and let it work the eyecaps off for itself. If that doesn't work, try using wet cotton buds on the eyecaps because more invasive methods can damage the snake.
Here's the result of the snake-o-bath on a bad shed.

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Om, where did the snake go? :rofl:

That stuff looks like it works great. Where do you get it? Smokey's last two sheds have been really bad, no problem with eye caps but every bits and pieces of everything else.

"snake-o-bath" I love that!

If you get it moist enough the eye cap will come off. But go very slow and gentle. Best is the snake can rub it off by itself.