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I love herps of all kinds and even own a leo of my own, but I've never heard of this problem before.

A friend of mine...hmmm...thats gonna sound like its ME with the bad husbandry
Let me back up...I actually own a small pet store (its true!) that specializes in reptiles, and I have a customer that bought a PetCo special leo gecko that is having some problems shedding.

She brought it in and it appeared the shedding skin was coming off too forcefully or it was too dry or something and thus the leo seemed to be bleeding a bit at the shed site. The only thing I could think of was it was lacking a humid hide for shedding purposes and so I made her one. Well she came back today saying now there is skin on its side with a bit of blood.

Has anyone ever heard of this? Is this in fact a shedding problem or something else that I can't seem to find?

Any help would be great. Thank you!

I've heard of layers of stuck shed cracking skin. Think of it this way. When the gecko is in the humid hide, it's stuck shed is soft and pliable. When it comes out, and the skin dries, it retracts, tearing the skin.

She might have to do a little work to get the skin off.

Just my .02$.
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But wouldn't something like that have been fixed the first time?

What I mean is she came in with the problem and didn't have the humid hide at the time. So I made her one but the problem still occurs.
If its cracking from 'shrinkage' I'd think that'd be one heck of a dry cage...in fact I would think that sort of cracking would have to happen VERY quickly...

It is often from previous layers that have not shed. I had a rescue come to me with several layers of old shed stuck. Took about 2 weeks of 2x daily soaks and hand peeling to remove it all, and then time for the area to heal well enough to be smooth and prevent a re-occurance.
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1.0 Hypo stripe, Het RW from JL (BJ)
1.0 HypoTang from Crested (Apricot)
1.0 Tremper Albino from Petsmart (Cloud)
0.1 Hi-Yellow Leopard gecko from Petco (Beatrice)
0.1 Stripe female (rehabilitated rescue)(Pepper)
0.1 Jungle het RW hatched by me! (Jungle Bunny)
0.1 SHCT Leopard Gecko from Petco (Brite)
0.1 Tangy Mutt Leopard Gecko from Petco (Rainbow)
0.1 RW Stripe hatched by me! (unnamed yet)
0.1 Leucistic rescue (Lucy?)
0.1 Tremper stripe from JMG (Delta)
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0.0.1 SHCTB hatched by me! (Sunny II)
0.1 Ball Pythons
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
Hatched: ~50 leos

Ok, I get it now.
Ok, thanks folks! I'll tell her what needs to be done...