Yes, it's somewhat common for the eye caps to remain when a snake sheds. This happens mostly in cases like yours, with dehydrated snakes, but generally only one eye cap will stick, but, both do once in a geat while.



Not to insult your intelligence by any means but a few days before a snake sheds, it's eyes clear up. If that burm's eyes cleared before shedding but they're cloudy now, it most likely is about to shed again (another common phenomenon with dehydrated or mite infested snakes).



If /when eye scales remain they can be removed with tweezers. It's best to have one person hold the snake, and it's head, while another person removes the scales. You should be able to see the edge of the old eye scale and easily grab ahold of it & slowly peel it off.



Hang in there & keep up the good work!

HH
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Due to political correctness run amuck,

this ol' hillbilly is now referred to as an:

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