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Shedding

Remmy

Remmy

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Hi, My norm is shedding but the skin is coming of in little bits and pieces. Their arebits of skin hanging of it everywhere. Is their something i can do to help this. I have heard about getting the humidity right but how do i do this. I have been spraying water in the viv. Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
I'm dealing with this too. My Amel's skin was coming off oddly. The head, eye caps and part of her neck came off in one piece first. Then it looked like the rest was coming off in bits but this morning I found it, its like something ripped it up but its still linked in places. Some spots by what looks like just one scale. I have no idea what to do. Humidity in my snake's cage is 40-55% depending on if we use our drier or not that day.
 
You can try giving them a bath in water, careful on the temps though if its warm to you, its way too hot for them. In the bath water you can lay down a small towel or paper towels for your snake to crawl through, let them crawl around for about 30 min or so. The other thing you can to is add a moist hide using either damp moss or paper towels in a hide, when Smokey had his bad shed, I added wet paper towels into his hides, within an hour he had managed to slough his old left on skin.
 
Thanks for the advice. I have just been to the shop where i bought them and they told me to spray repti shedding aid on them. If this doesnt work i will try the wet paper towels.
 
I've found the best thing to use is moist sphagnum moss in a container that gives him little room to roam. Around three hours later they are usually seperated from the skin.
 
I prefer the sphagnum moss too, but I had none when Smokey had his bad shed, I used the last of it for a leopard gecko moist hide.
 
After trying raising the humidity, spraying with repti shedding aid, wet paper towels in a small container and a bath, today i tried another bath, peeled the skin, back in the bath, peeled more skin and now i have a shed norm after 2 weeks. :)
 
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