Update while I'm here: still hasn't shed yet. Added a wetbox so she can use that if she wants, along with my soakings. I'm willing to manually shed her, but on her topside it's like there's simply nothing to shed off unless I was into skinning.



Full history because I don't think all her problems are really related to bad husbandry, not from me anyhow: she came to me loaded with mites in early '08 (during this time none of my other snakes got them since I quarantine). The mites caused the RI on their way out which I caught really early and immediately treated/fixed. That all happened early-mid 2008. The tricamonads also went out of whack as a domino effect at that point, but since their only symptom was being irregular with food and the vet wasn't checking for them I fully admit I didn't notice what I didn't know existed and chalked it up to stress from the mites.

In early 2009 she began farting and got extremely aggressive, I identified the tricamonads via kingsnake, met with my vet and cleared them. Her previous weird shed I mentioned was during the end of the four-five weeks of treatment, which took a bit longer than it should because the vet wanted to try a lighter dosage than what was recommended here first. Lighter dosage didn't work that well, he upped it to what I mentioned and they cleared up immediately. After the weird shed she gave me a perfect one. She's been eating, pooping and shedding fine ever since. Oh, and she's been acting like a shy kitten again, instead of a hungry monster.



I fully agree they're opportunistic, but I'm inclined to believe they happened because of the mites. All my other snakes have never ever had an issue. Sorry I glazed over all that in my first post! For quick husbandy notes she's on paper towels, has a nice big water tub along with her shedding log and proper hiding, and her gradient spans 75 to 85-90. A tiny bit on the cooler end of the spectrum but I've heard from here that they like it best that way, and she seems to have no issues with it.
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