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It may sound like a dumb question, but here it goes. I have a hatchling GTP, and I've had him for about three months. He hasn't shed since i've gotten him, but the last two days, he has become very wrinkled and looks uncomfortable. He isn't coiled around his perch, he's kind of spread out on it. I did notice the yellow darken a little bit over the past few days, but his eyes don't look cloudy. I have a few snakes, and all of them will get the blueish eyes and pale skin before shedding. I just wanted to make sure that this is what is supposed to happen before they shed. I am spraying him twice a day, and he just ate a nice big meal four days ago. So he seems healthy, maybe i'm just paranoid, but I wanted to make sure. I appreciate the help, thanks.
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Yellow hatchlings can trick you. They do get the cloudy look like other snakes, but it's sometimes very hard to notice. Sometimes it's easier to tell by the puffy looking nose and head a few days before they shed. Most hatchlings will shed every 5-8 weeks. Three months seems like a long time for a hatchling, but they are all different. I wouldn't worry to much, but keep the humidity up.

Brandon Osborne

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Ten million dollars on a losing campaign, Twenty million starving and writhing in pain, Big strong people unwilling to give, strong in vision and perspective, One in five kids below the poverty line, One population running out of time...

1.1.0 Ball Pythons
0.0.1 Gray Banded Kingsnake
1.6.0 Leopard Geckos
1.0.0 Veiled Chameleon
1.0.0 Viper Gecko
1.1.0 Pictus Geckos
0.0.1 Colombian Tegu
1.1.0 Collared Lizards
1.1.0 Blue Tongued Skinks
1.0.1 Tokay Geckos
1.3.0 Crested Geckos
1.0.0 Red Tailed Boa
0.0.1 Yellow Phase Green Tree Python
1.1.0 Bearded Dragons

You have one, possibly more dry sheds on this animal. If increasing the humidity does not encourage the animal to shed you might have to soak it... For this I would suggest using a plastic shoebox with a few drilled holes for ventilation...use something like a wash cloth - soak it and wad it up as an "island" and put in shoebox...add half an inch of luke warm water and either place it over a heat tape or perhaps in a cage or room that is at least 80F. I have found best results putting shoebox length wise over one strand of heat tape in my room which is 80F. Leave the animal setup like this for a day or two and hopefully it will shed on it's own...last resort would be to hand shed while still moist from the box - although I hate handling GTP that size for fear of doing damage to the vertebra...maybe just start the shed past the head and replace animal in shoebox over night again.

Good luck...TW