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Try as I might, even with soaking and super-high humidity, my rescued female just won't shed properly.

She got most of it off, in flakes this time.

Has anyone ever used baby oil to help remove retained shed?
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1.1.2 Ball Python (normal/rescue)
0.0.1 Yellow Anaconda
0.0.1 Kingsnake spp.
1.3.0 Southern/Turkish Crested Newt
1.3.0 Roughskinned Newt
5.0.0 Axolotl
0.3.0 Jefferson's Salamander
0.0.2 Blue Spotted Salamander
0.0.2 Tiger Salamander
0.0.2 Fire Salamander
0.0.1 Himalayan Crocodile Newt
0.0.2 Common Musk Turtle
0.1.0 Calico Cat

>>Try as I might, even with soaking and super-high humidity, my rescued female just won't shed properly.

How long have you had her? It took my first rescued BP a few sheds (and a lot of feeding) before he finally was able to get it all off in one piece.... Might be more to it than just humidity and soaking.
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2.0 normal ball pythons

Stacey

Sal

The whole shed doesn't always have to completely come off. If you keep the humidity up, do soaks, next time the shed will come off with the new shed and you should be fine. Just make sure you never try to force or "take off" the remaining shed.. I don't want to get into the horror stories =/