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Just noticed my first pair of "milky" eyes ~ Also a few "dry looking" patches on some scales.

How long does a shed normaly take to complete? The snake in question is a CB05 female. Are the milky eyes the first sign? Are all snakes different when it comes to shed, or is there a predicatble cycle?

Thanks in advance for the replies!

Curious,
Jay

the first sign is normally a pink belly, then milky eyes, then very blue eyes, then the eyes will clear up and the skin will darken, and finally the snake will shed. This full process takes about 2.5 weeks from what I have noticed. From blue eyes I would say 2 weeks or so, all depends on the how the snake is feeling.
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1.0 100% het albino ball python (Junah)
0.1 normal Ball python (Alana)
01 50% het albino Retail Boa (Hitomi)

Depends on the snake. Some snakes get a bright pink belly first, some get milky eyes first, some sneak it up on you with only a little bit of a dullness to them before they turn completely grey and shed.

The cycle tends to take about 2 weeks, like the previous poster mentioned. I have noticed that not all snakes will get a pink belly, but they all start to turn dull, with eyes that get greyer and greyer as time goes on. They eventually turn completely opaque, and look blue, and then within a week of that, the snake usually sheds. A lot of snakes clear up a day or two before the shed, looking completely normal again.

Now is the time to make sure that your humidity is perfect!

~jenny
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