Sorry I haven't been back sooner, was under the weather for a couple of days. I really appreciate all the help, both here on the forum plus through emails. Thanks!!



Spot shed the other day, a very disorganized shed, the worst it's ever been. I put him in warmish water for half an hour and got most of it off. I always hold him for a good hour before, so it's not such a shock. Now the only skin that is still attached is on his throat.



We're going shopping today, so I'll be able to pick up a plastic shoe-box w/ lid kind of container to put damp Bed-a-Beast in so he has a place to go before he sheds.



I have a couple of questions. This is long, again. Sorry! It's a combination of worry about my old pet snake, I like to talk, and 2 years of typing in high school that I've used in all the years since.



Anyway... How long before I should worry about the retained shed on his throat? It's been 2 days since he shed. Someone posted a question about Vitamin E in/on the food, and I wondered, too, about that or something else, like a wee bit on the dried skin.



Also, how in heaven's name do y'all fit all that furniture in your cage set-ups??? Dog dish sized bowl at the cool end, which is a hide underneath, a large pass-through half-log in the middle, and an upturned bowl over a part of his heat rock at the warm end.



This is a 55-gal aquarium with a screen & plastic top. It's almost 12 1/2" deep, and 48" wide. In order to put the shoe-box in with the Bed-a-Beast, something's got to go, I guess the bowl.



This is the first shed I can remember without any lead-up-to warnings. Usually he starts getting dull, then his eyes cloud over for a couple of days (and clear); from beginning to end the process takes about 10 days. This time it was BANG! no warning.



I've got most of the top covered, I took away the overhead 40w bulb a couple of days ago, so all he's got is the hot rock w/ rheostat right now. Though there's no air conditioner in the dining room, we do a/c the downstairs, I might have to put the o'head light back. We'll see.



I'd appreciate any comments on any part of this, and will check back later. Thank you ALL!!

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