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possible shed issue

crzymom2grl2by

crzymom2grl2by

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So Nagini has still never shed in my care and I've had her since Nov. 6th. Don't know when she shed. But her face looks weird, hope you can tell from the pix. The last one is just for fun cause it's cute ;)




I was concerned about whatever you call the skin around the eyes.
 
Holy crap that looks weird. I would say she has a retained shed or something going on. Does she hold her mouth open like the picture on the bottom often? Does she always look like this?
 
What's the inside of her mouth look like? Does she make any kind of noise when breathing? Could you get a few more pictures?

I don't have much experience with this kind of thing. Hopefully someone with more experience can chime in.
 
Here's picture of my okeetee so hopefully you can see what I mean about the mouth

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And here is the top of his head.

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I couldn't begin to get her mouth open with the q tip, so resorted to my fingernail. Son took the pic, so not real clear, but as best we could get.


 
It is probably mouth breathing from shed plugging its nostrils. Try the warm wet towell and see if it comes off.
 
I've never seen anything like that!
It certainly looks as though she has 'shed' stuck on her head, but I'm no expert. I like the warm cloth idea.
 
How long should I hold her in the towel, and if that doesn't work should I maybe put her in a container with wet moss? Also I have a feeling the humidity is too low, how do you check for humidity?
 
Here's what I did when I had a snake with a stuck shed. I filled a container with enough luke warm water to cover the bottom. Then I put a hand towel in it. I then added the snake and put the top on the container (it was a small cooler) I left him for a little while then had hide slide through the wet towel and his stuck shed came right off.

I'm not sure if it will work i this case. That looks like some serious scarring
 
That's what I would do. And add a humid hide. Do you know what your humidity level is in the vivarium?
 
The front of her face looks like a fish that has bumped the walls too much and has scarred her lip. There's no color, it's just beige. Then the whole dent on top of her head. I wet down a towel with hot water and wrapped her in it in her feed container. Every time she wiggled out of it I put her back in and kept doing this for about 20min. Then I tried wiping off her head and neck but couldn't see anything come off. So I put a big bowl of water in her viv and covered the lid mostly with the wet towel to keep the humidity up. I'm sure it's very dry in there as winter in Iowa makes it super dry in the house and I don't have a humidifier. I will look at her tomorrow and try again with the wet towel in the container. I'm wondering if I should put a wet towel on Jafar's viv as well. She's never shed yet but I wonder if it would be a good idea or not.
 
Just a humid hide should be enough. I will be adding one to Crush's viv tomorrow. He is due to shed soon too. Cover 2/3 of the top with a towel to hold humidity in more too.
 
I wish I knew how to tell what the humidity is. This morning I put her in the container with water and towel for 30 min. Then put some wet moss in her hide and the we take towel over her lid with a gap at one end.
 
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