My ball shed a couple days ago. It was a perfect shed except for a tear around the vent area. I picked her up and checked her out, everything looked fine except for a hair-thin "line" of blood coming from her vent... well, it was kind of under the vent scale. I didn't see any stuck skin or broken spurs or anything like that. I used a papertowel to wipe at the vent - going 'with' the scales - and managed to get it outta there, and i didn't see any further bleeding.
two weeks ago i switched her from a glass terrarium to a tub rack system. i used shredded coconut in the tank, and i'm using shredded aspen in the tub - she completely cleared her hide box of aspen the first day in the tub, so i stuck a paper towel under her warm-spot hide box for cleanliness. there's a moist box with that same shredded coconut in her tub, and she jumped in there a few hours after the weird shed incident. she DID take a dump tho, which was something i was worried about. I checked out her poop - that sucked - for pieces of skin or something obvious, but didn't find anything unusual...but i don't dig thru her poop usually.
she ate yesterday, and i can't see anything unusual near her vent anymore, but i thought it'd be best to ask.
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0.1 Ball Python (Bea)
1.1 Corn - Male Butter (Butters), Female Normal (Rusty)
1.0 Rosy (Pumpkin)
1.1 Checkered Garter (Cracker & Tweek)
