My ball's last incomplete shed was in December 08'during my school's winter break. I was surprised he shed at all, b/c he had just had a complete shed September '08. I think is eye caps are still on but I'm having a hard time telling. I soaked his whole body after his incomplete shed thinking that was going to help get rid of his skin on his head. The reason I think his eye caps are still on is the lense looks wrinkled on one eye and I can't see his pupil clearly. He is a normal so he has dark eyes and after his eyes go cloudy then clear up it's difficult to see if the caps are still on. I know in between shedding I got a little lazy about making sure he had plenty of humidity. But, I also didn't know if that short time span between shedding could be brought on by stress since he was being moved from my classroom to my house.

I have heard all kinds of ways to remove eye caps. I have heard if snakes don't shed their eye caps you can wait until the next shed to see if they remove them then.Is that correct? I have also heard horror stories about people tring to removing eye caps that were not present and damaging the snakes eye. I guess I just maybe need some tricks of the trade.

The picture I posted is from when he went blue in September.

Thanks for any help.

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• Eye Cap Removal - curlyfry65, Sat Feb 28 23:44:05 2009
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• agreed... n/p - illbeyoursoldier, Mon Mar 2 22:26:00 2009
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• agreed... n/p - illbeyoursoldier, Mon Mar 2 22:25:13 2009