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i keep my snake sheds and im starting to get a bunch lying around my room. if i were to leave a pile of sheds under a tarp outside do you think i would attract any snakes? i dont think garders will respond to ball python or cornsnakes sheds but its just a thought. who thinks that this would work? who doesnt? i know someones going to say "thats a stupid question", you know the truth... it is lol. just curious. ill probably try this summer anyway, nothing better to do with sheds, or is there?
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

if i put them in a shoebox under my bed if i had an escape would i find the snake there? yet another idea i doubt will work.
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

It is GARTER's not Garders. Lol and i dont know if your idea would work.

Random Pic of Smokey

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Cameron

my girlfriends name is brittany garder so i do know how to spell it i just didnt realize what im doing
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

I doubt it would work, but it's certainly worth a shot. Can't hurt. One thing you can do with the good sheds (leaving partial sheds for any experiments) is to laminate and offer them to any little natural history museums, nature centers or schools in the area. Or without the lamination, though in that case I'd suggest advising the recipient to laminate it before kids handle it.
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0.2 chickens (Condor & Valentine)
0.2 dog mutts (half ownership, only mine when they misbehave, Lucy & Amy)
0.1 Halflinger horse (Crissy)
0.1 Normal phase California Kingsnake (Sophia)
1.1 parents
Still searching for 1.0 WC human

While I don't know that preserved sheds would have much value where I live because the area is mostly rural and suburban, I really like that idea for reptile keepers in urban areas or those who are near urban areas where kids may not have seen sheds. A good skin that is laminated or framed would be a good decoration/learning aid in science classrooms.

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

i laminate my snake diary with sheds or i have also seen x-mas balls made of sheds for sale at snake shows
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1.1 Columbian red tails (Zeus, Athena)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

I have kept a bunch of sheddings from my first boa. I bought her as a neonate in 1989. To qualify as a keeper, the shedding had to be whole and I had to find it fresh. I turned each right side out, straightened them out and pressed/dried them under magazines. I keep them pinned up in sequence on a few cork boards on my office wall. Quite the conversation piece, I love it when someone comes that does not know about them.

They range from 20ish inches to 12 feet long. The boa is between 10 and 11 feet now.
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Thanks,

Dave "Rainbows-R-Us"

0.1 Wife (WC)
0.2 kids (CBB)
4.12 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
2.1 Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 Het for Hypomelanistic BRB
0.1 BCI "Elvira" normal from 1989
1.0 BCI albino / het-anery
0.1 BCI Hypo / het-albino
0.1 BCI Anery / het-albino
0.1 BCI Hypo (possible super)
1.0 BCI albino het stripe
1.0 BCI salmon hypo
0.1 BCI ghost

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

I'd burn or bury the sheds to minimize the chance of passing pathogens to the wild population.

Paul Hollander

>>I'd burn or bury the sheds to minimize the chance of passing pathogens to the wild population.

Glad you brought that up. I don't think it's at all necessary to destroy them, sheds are cool items, but that's a good reason to not use them as a wild snake lure.

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0.2 chickens (Condor & Valentine)
0.2 dog mutts (half ownership, only mine when they misbehave, Lucy & Amy)
0.1 Halflinger horse (Crissy)
0.1 Normal phase California Kingsnake (Sophia)
1.1 parents
Still searching for 1.0 WC human

i think sheds will sread less germs than anything else. its impossible not to spread any, when your snake defocates you flush it or trow it out, either wayyour spreading them
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jake

my addiction:
2 normal ball pythons (lazlo and izzy)
1 amelenistic corn snake (zyklon)
0.1 blizzard corn (blizz)

I like Drosera’s laminating idea for displaying shed skins to others in an educational setting.

On a couple of occasions when I stored sheds in a box and came back months later, nothing but “dust” remained. An insect, perhaps, had eaten them.

-Joan