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Help! My snakes hates me. page 2

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kellbell

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....from the top. I have been watching to see if he's changing appearence because of shedding, but it doesn't look like it.
If anyone has any suggestions on anything specific, I could use the advise.
Until then I will keep reading my books and the forum, while I pick up my new little devil snake with a sock on my hand...

Thanks
Kellbell

Also, besides shaking his tail when he's in his strike position, he opens and closed his mouth repeatedly. Is this an aggressive move? I don't think he's yawning at me!
 
Sounds like aggressive posturing to me. I posted on your other one, but I mentioned shed. What morph is he? Some of the lighter stuff such as snows, blizzards, and a lot of the amels, are hard to tell when they go into blue because of the red eyes.
 
thanks for the reply--he's an amel--and yes it's going to hard for to tell by his eyes because I can't even see his pupil. (can you normally distinguish a pupil in the red eyed snakes?)

Thanks for the help
 
kellbell,

I asked a question about Amels shedding right after I got my Amel on July 3 and everyone tried to explain to me about how to tell when an Amel is getting ready to shed. Well, as of yesterday I believe that mine is getting set to shed. His eyes and body used to be very bright, his eyes were very bright red, but as of yesterday his body has gone very dull and ashy looking and his eyes are a very cloudy burgundy/cloudy maroon color. I had to look at a picture that I had taken of him previously to see the color difference. So it is very hard to tell unless you know that it looks like.

Also, my snake is now in hiding, I believe because he's getting ready to shed. I have a suspicion that if I messed with him now he would be a little pissy so I'm leaving him alone.

I hope thats all it is with yours as well and hopefully he'll come out of his funk soon!

Hope this helps some.
 
If she is going into shed this is when you will be convinced she is dying, she looks so sad, the 3-4 days when she is dusky and dull seem to last forever. I very nearly took her to the vet the first time I experienced it. With my mate it is 4-5 days after she gets her colour back that she sheds, have your camara ready it is amazing to witness. Here in the UK there is a topic taught in junior school called 'Patterns In Nature' the school always appreciate the shed skin to demonstrate. Does anyone else do anything unusual with the shed skin?
 
I just check to make sure the eye caps are off, and that the entire thing is there. After that....in the trash! The neighbor kids wanted to have one once.
 
i keep each of the sheds and hang them on the wall in order, its cute! each skin is slightly longer and larger around than the last, its like keeping marks on the wall for a growing child !
 
i too keep all the skins my snakes shed, my first corn i got was 3 months old, hes now 7 yrs old, it fascinating to see how much he has grown. bless him
 
Aurora, that is cute!

I wouldn't worry about the "yawning" while he's in that defense position. I have a hatchling that does the same thing. Little guys think they're so tough!
 
I keep the shed in an envelope. I heard someone sold a python snake shed on ebay for around $15. Well some people would buy everything.....
 
my snake just shed today and now he's in a really pissy mood. i held him for a few minutes, when i put him back in the viv, he coiled up and started striking while i was putting the lid on and locking it. this is probably just because he just got done shedding, right?? he hasn't done this til today, but i've only had him for a week and a half. i hope he doesn't keep doing it, or it'll be back to the pet shop for him.
 
I find mine are really sensitive right after shedding, so I usually only hold them long enough to check that everything shed properly. After a day or so, they're usually back to normal. Now that your's shed, it might be hungry too.
 
MegF. said:
Now that your's shed, it might be hungry too.
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i fed him yesterday. he pounded down a small mouse in no time.then he shed while i was at work today. i get home, remove the shed, move the hide, take out the snake to make sure all the skin came off, take out my baby snow just to handle him for a few minutes. then i put the baby snow back, put the okeetee back in the cage, i go to put the hide back in and the okeetee starts lunging at me. i gave him an hour to chill out, then i got the hide put back in the cage, then the lil f@#$%r starts striking while i'm locking the lid.
i may offer him another small mouse tomorrow and will definately give him a few days to chill out.

and no i don't feed in the viv. i have a "feed box" i use for feeding.
 
Strange, but maybe he is still hungry. I'd still wait until his normal feeding day to give him time to digest what he has. I've never had a problem with the snake biting me when I have fed in the viv. As a matter of fact, it actually made her easier to handle because she wasn't so afraid of my hand coming into the viv. She's relaxed enough now to feed in the feeder box like my other one.
 
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