i dont know how much experience you have with snakes...so ill assume this is your first. when they shed, their colors get really dull and their bellies get a light pink. then their eyes start to get cloudy or "blue". after a few days of being in blue, the eyes clear up. a day or two after they clear they shed their skin. once their eyes clear up i usually give them a warm bath every night and raise the humidity in the cage to 70%-80%.

If you already knew all this and your snake is really having trouble shedding, raise the humidity and give it a warm bath. when it does shed, look at the shed skin and make sure the eye caps have shed off.

Hope this helps. -Mike

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• Problems Shedding? - Recoil, Fri Dec 12 17:47:52 2003
• RE: Problems Shedding? - kevintat2, Fri Dec 12 18:49:57 2003
• RE: Problems Shedding? - the-mikester, Fri Dec 12 19:18:18 2003
• Do exactly that! Couldn't agree more... n/p - triniian, Fri Dec 12 20:38:39 2003
• RE: Humidity - recoil, Sat Dec 13 05:08:22 2003
• RE: Humidity - kevintat2, Sat Dec 13 15:52:04 2003
• RE: Problems Shedding? - Carlton, Mon Dec 15 17:27:39 2003