sarae
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I'm still struggling with this little ball python at work. I posted awhile back about her scale rot/vent injury...
finally got that cleared up, finally taught her to eat mice from one end or the other - not the middle... now it's something else!
The last two sheds have gone horribly. She'll go opaque, then turn "crispy"... and that's all. The first time I waited 3 weeks with daily soaks and she never shed on her own. I finally had to remove it all myself over the course of a week.
After that shed, she was moved from paper towel to aspen and her tank was misted twice a day to raise humidity. We also began soaking her three times a week.
This time, as soon as she went opaque, we started daily soaks. A week later she was fully crispy and uncomfortable. Her skin still won't shed on its own. She has a rough half-log she can (and does) rub on to no avail. When I hold her, she starts rubbing her head back and forth on the edge of my palm, but that gets her nowhere either.
She's going to be adopted into a special, knowledgeable home, owner full aware of her past and present problems, but I'm wondering if there's something else we can do other than manually helping her out of her old skin each shed. (cross posted to b-p.net)
finally got that cleared up, finally taught her to eat mice from one end or the other - not the middle... now it's something else!
The last two sheds have gone horribly. She'll go opaque, then turn "crispy"... and that's all. The first time I waited 3 weeks with daily soaks and she never shed on her own. I finally had to remove it all myself over the course of a week.
After that shed, she was moved from paper towel to aspen and her tank was misted twice a day to raise humidity. We also began soaking her three times a week.
This time, as soon as she went opaque, we started daily soaks. A week later she was fully crispy and uncomfortable. Her skin still won't shed on its own. She has a rough half-log she can (and does) rub on to no avail. When I hold her, she starts rubbing her head back and forth on the edge of my palm, but that gets her nowhere either.
She's going to be adopted into a special, knowledgeable home, owner full aware of her past and present problems, but I'm wondering if there's something else we can do other than manually helping her out of her old skin each shed. (cross posted to b-p.net)
