2 sheds in one month?

[Distaff]

Starbuck's last shed was on the 7th of March. Weight was 232 grams. He declined his next offered meal, but ate for me on the 25th. I haven't weighed him since, but if anything, he seems slightly slimmer. He was very active in his enclosure for the first three weeks of March, but has calmed down to his usual activity level since.

Yesterday, I noticed he was again, unmistakeably in blue.

Seasonal? His last span between sheds was over three months, and back in the winter, he ate every meal offered, on a 10 day schedule.

 

[HerpsOfNM]

Hormones....

The first shed could be viewed as a post-brumation shed, even if he was never cooled. The subsequent lack of food interest is common in male snakes during breeding seaon; even have it happen in my leopard geckos.

The second shed could possibly be a "repair" shed from slithering about, rubbing on things, and ultimately doing mild scalation damage from being on the cruise for the ladies.

 

[Karl_Mcknight]

snakes shed "as they need to." We will never fully understand it, but he obviously for whatever reason, "needs to."

 

[Distaff]

Thanks!
That is what I was hoping to hear.

 

[jagodzinski]

Like the others said, if there are no alarming other changes, I wouldn't worry. Once, my corn snake Jag had some rough scales (sort of like scratches) and the vet said to expect that she might shed earlier than usually as a sort of self-repair type of situation.