Tip 1: Mist your BPs enclosure throughly as soon you realize they are in shed. Mist em more than once while in shed, it won't hurt.



Tip 2: 'Spill the water'. Yep, dump some of the water bowl onto the substrate. Dump enough water that would (by estimate) take 2 or 3 days to dry up. Your snake will absorb the extra moisture through direct contact with the substrate, as well as when the water evaporates into the air.



While it's true that keeping a ball python on damp/wet substrate will cause blisters/sores/etc to the belly there is no harm to come from 2 or 3 days exposure to damp substrate.



I use a combo of misting/dumping for my balls, cornsnakes, and Pituophis and can't recall the last time I had a 'bad shed.' Years ago atleast!





Hope this helps.



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• Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - sugarfox03, Mon Mar 14 16:15:21 2005
• RE: Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - ginebig, Mon Mar 14 16:35:36 2005
• RE: Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - MightyPython, Mon Mar 14 16:40:12 2005
• RE: Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - sugarfox03, Mon Mar 14 16:52:59 2005
• Moss, etc - bloodycats, Mon Mar 14 17:02:27 2005
• I always mist. - bloodycats, Mon Mar 14 16:52:47 2005
• RE: Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - caw8959, Mon Mar 14 17:10:39 2005
• Do not leave a snake in water unsupervised! - bloodycats, Mon Mar 14 17:38:39 2005
• RE: Do not leave a snake in water unsupervised! - Circusfan, Mon Mar 14 18:52:28 2005
• 'Misting and dumping'.......> > > - BackBeat, Mon Mar 14 20:13:29 2005
• Thanks! - sugarfox03, Tue Mar 15 14:31:15 2005
• Humidify!! more... - ginevive, Tue Mar 15 15:52:08 2005
• RE: Anything I can do to help my snake shed? - mingdurga, Wed Mar 16 12:12:28 2005