Those all important sheds are crucial in determining due dates in BRB's. Problem is when one sheds while together with a mate or trio, which one shed????
Each BRB has a unique pattern but the sheds do not retain any color so that doesn't help.
Tracking when each one turns opaque can be very useful when one of the group sheds but if multiple are due more or less at the same time??? Of course the fresh shed white belly is a dead give away if you're narrowed down to two due to shed.
But what to do when you find a shed in a cage and all three are over a month sincs last shed, all three shed within a couple weeks for their last shed cycle. More than one looks like it could be fresh shed and your notes don't show any of the three opaque recently?
Time to compare scales if you can. They are like snake fingerprints, unique to each animal. Unroll the shed right side out until you find the upper head area. Carefully spread it out and look for oddities or even lack of oddities in the shape of the scales in the center of the head, midway between the eyes and a bit closer to the nose. Those scales are typically very symetrical and with the eyecaps it's easy to locate a specific scale.
For example, found a shed tonight in a trio breeding cage. Noted a few odd shaped scales...
Once I had identified some anomalies, time to compare to the suspects.....
Suspect one - clearly had a completely different scale pattern - innocent.
Suspect two - Similar basic pattern but none of the three identified scales matched - innocent.
Suspect three - Bingo, all three (plus others) matched. Biwa is the guilty party.
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Thanks,
Dave Colling
www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (02/01/2010):
42.61 BRB
27.40 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats 
