A couple months ago i got two babie beauty ratsnakes. I have been feeding them pinky mice and they have both reacherd their first shedding period. the problem is that they are having trouble shedding the seem to be healthy but the sking come off in shredds instead of one peice. whats up?
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Shedding problem?
reptiluver
Jan 04, 2007 07:18 PM
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shaky
Jan 04, 2007 08:22 PM
Give it more humidity.
Try placing the snakes in a plastic box with soaked, crumpled up newspaper and about 1/4 inch of warm water.
As they crawl through the wet paper, the old skin should slough right off.
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