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I came home from work yesterday to find my ball python out in the open and wearing a new skin. I started trying to find her shed skin and eventually found it wadded into a little ball under her coconut hide. At first, it appeared to be a little mound of feces and urates. Only when I picked it up with a cleaning wipe did I realize that it was the skin mixed with some substrate. When I stretched it out, I found that it was a perfect shed.

My question is whether people think she accomplished the entire shed without leaving her coconut hide. Can a snake really contort enough to shed without getting out of the tiny space under half a coconut? I have claustrophobia, and the thought of changing clothes in a tight spot gives me major anxiety problems. If she really accomplished her entire shed without leaving the coconut, I'm glad that I wasn't here to watch.

Thanks,

Bill

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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

thats the way all but one of my snakes sheds. They just go around in circles till its all off.

LOL, yup they're all spine and rib bones . Round in circles and in and out of their coils till it's all off.

Quig

I don't even want to think about that. If I'm ever here when she sheds, I'll just leave the room. In any case, thank you to both of you for explaining the process.

Thanks,

Bill
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It's not how many snakes you have. It's how happy and healthy you can keep them.

LOL, well without hands it's gotta come off somehow

Quig