Yes give it a moist hide. A margarine tub with a hole cut in the side and some moist moss or even just moist paper towels will work. For right now since it has already started shedding you need to soak it. Put it in an escape proof container (with air holes) with about 1/8th inch of water on the bottom for a few hours. If you put a layer of newspaper on the bottom so it soaks up most of the water and leaves the water barely over the newspaper that will give the snake something rough to rub against and it may shed by itself. If not then after a couple hours you should be able to manually rub the skin off.

Do this soaking today, if you let it go more than a couple days the skin can fuse on. The water and soaking tub should be kept at about room temp., 72F or so.

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