Use peanut butter, work it around where the skin sticks to the tape and slowly push the skin off the tape. The natural peanut oil works great to lossen the tape adhesive. Had a similar problem with my hatchling cornsnakes and the peanut butter worked great. Another advantage is peanut butter dries and will just fall off your snake and is less likely to glug your snake's nostrals as oils could. Just make sure your snake is on paper towel till all the peanut butter/tape is gone/removed.

Peanut butter even worked great to remove a rat pup that was stuck on one of those stick traps for mice/rats. The pup escaped and I didn't necessarily want to kill it to capture it (as I was growing them up to get them to small adult size, as the newly weaned size was a bit small for my ball python and some of my other snakes) As I didn't know if a live mouse trap would be big enough, and since I already had the sticky traps, I baited one and the rat pup was caught in it. The peanut butter worked great at removing all that stickiness of the trap and served as a coating for the rest of the tape so the rat wouldn't get more stuck while struggling to get away while I tried to unstick him.
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