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Retained Eye Cap

WingedSweetheart

WingedSweetheart

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Well this is concerning a kingsnake really but I figured the advice would be the same and get a quicker response up in this section.

Anyway, yesterday morning around 10:00am, my little Nitida shed. I had a stomach and so I didn't get up to remove it or check it out. I slept all yesterday and last night (between trips to the bathroom :puke01:).

Well this morning I got up and took the shed out and noticed a missing eye cap. Got the snake out and sure enough it is stuck.

I have her soaking right now but it's probably not going to do much good as she isn't going to stick her head under the water.

I let her crawl through a damp cloth for a little while and it still didn't budge!

So should I just leave it until she sheds again in the next month or so? She's getting bigger now so it is usually around every month and a half to two months between sheds.

P.s.

Going to be misting all my snakes this time around. They are all female and all went into shed last week (strange).
 
Wet a finger and gentle rub it against that side of the snakes head. The goal is only to loosen it up a bit so the snake can get it off itself. You may want to provide a moist hide next time. Just put some damp moss in an old tupperware or food storage container and cut an entry hold in it. It will make a big difference and save you some stress.
 
I'll try again later. She's pretty ticked off at me now. I also tried using a q-tip and then resorted to my wet finger. But it doesn't want to move at all. It feels hard around the edges.
 
When you soak her, cover the tub's air vents with clingfilm and warm it up to mid-80s for about an hour before putting her in. This makes the air inside humid. Once she's inside, keep the tub warm but ondo a little of the clingfilm to allow a slight airflow for her.

Also, instead of using a layer of water in the bottom of the tub, try putting in a really wet, scrunched up towel. That way, she'll be inclined to burrow into it, rather than keeping her head above a pool of water.
 
When Fred had the retained spectacle I was instructed by the vet to soak two or three times a day in weak betadine solution and apply Vaseline Intensive Care lotion to the spectacle. After a week, the vet changed him to an opthalmic ointment. The spectacle came off in his next shed, which was sooner than normal, and it has never happened again.

I have also heard of soaking the snake and then placing it in a pillow case or snake bag with a loosely-tied knot, and encouraging the snake to crawl through the knot.
 
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