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So my snake shed yesterday and I didn't take the skin out immediately. It was a large one piece clean shed like he always has. So when I got home today I noticed he had crawled back inside his skin and was literally just sitting in it. Anyone ever seen that before? I haven't and just found it to be very odd...but amusing!

Wish you had a photo of that! Never seen it before.

Where is the camera ?
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"Wake me when its April"
Doug L

it happened to me this year with a hatchling trans-pecos ratsnake the same day it shed )post hatching shed), it crawled back inside and appeared to be struggling, i was glad i found it when i did. after the groups second shed i found the same thing again, i am not sure if it was the same hatchling, but have an idea it was. I always liked leaving a shed skin in the cage because it seemed to me as if it would give the snake added security, knowing that it was his cage, his skin, his scent. now i tear off a small midsection piece of the skin and just leave that in their cages. Rusty

Sorry for the quality of the pic but blackberry cameras are not very good!

Be careful! Earlier this year, a herper on the Kentucky Reptile Expo site posted a pic of a snake that had done the same thing and suffocated itself!
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"Wake me when its April"
Doug L