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DISCERN
at Sat May 24 21:53:03 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DISCERN ]
My opinion is this: I would get rid of the lamp and heat rock, ( how are the temps in his cage without the lamp? would the cage be 78-82 without the lamp? ), as the lamp may be making the air a little too dry. I say this cause I had an older corn snake beginning in 1991, who was five feet at least, and I used the same exact type cage, and had a heat lamp on top, and he had the same dry spots of skin not coming off in sheds, much like yours. The moment I stopped using the lamp, when I found out my temps without it were just as good, he once again had complete and full sheds.
Sometimes when we make the temps higher using heat lamps, we do risk making the air too dry as well. I would also stop spraying him with water a few times as well, as he needs to be dry all the time.
He sounds like a great snake in great hands!!! Keep us posted and post a pic if you can.
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- Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - bamboo42, Sat May 24 02:23:54 2008
- RE: Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - DMong, Sat May 24 11:40:29 2008
- RE: Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - bamboo42, Sat May 24 12:34:11 2008
 RE: Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - DISCERN, Sat May 24 21:53:03 2008- RE: Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - ADDICTED23, Thu May 29 17:21:39 2008
- RE: Older pet corn, incomplete sheds (long) - bamboo42, Sat May 31 12:54:49 2008
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