Thought I should do a followup on my recent post (forums.kingsnake.com/view.php?id=1737757,1737757 about the stuck-shed/mites eye cup issue now that she has shed. I took the advice from Doug (DMong) and others to swab with mineral oil after clearing prior to shed and her shed came off perfectly. Note I never saw any direct evidence of mite infestation. The eyes are almost perfect now with just the slightest white area at the bottom which may just be normal and if not will probably just take one more shed. I could not detect a second, old eye cup in the shed but there did appear to be some pathology associated with it as in the diagram below.











My crummy diagram of the shed eye cup to show the rough, stalk-like skin around the eye cup. Mite damage perhaps? Any ideas?

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• Diadem Rat eye issue followup - monklet, Tue Oct 6 12:52:28 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - DMong, Tue Oct 6 13:39:51 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - monklet, Tue Oct 6 16:30:22 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - DMong, Tue Oct 6 16:58:42 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - monklet, Tue Oct 6 17:30:48 2009
• yep! n/p - DMong, Tue Oct 6 20:44:05 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - tokaysrnice, Sat Oct 10 10:30:00 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - monklet, Sun Oct 11 10:10:16 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - DMong, Sun Oct 11 11:40:34 2009
• RE: Diadem Rat eye issue followup - monklet, Sun Oct 11 23:31:13 2009
• Rear-fanged forum? - monklet, Sun Oct 11 23:40:22 2009