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well to make a long story short my0.2 adult balls are 1.1! they have now been breeding on and off for two weeks! here is the proble the one I believe is the female is in a hard shed. what should I do? (soke her ect. ect.)

also if they are done breeding will the female be active or the male one is all over the cage and one is resting quietly in the bvasking area.

I don't which is which because the person who sexed them well you know what happened there!

thanks Paul

I've heard forced soaking can stress them out a bit. I prefer the pillowcase trick. It's worked 100% every time.

- Dampen pillowcase.
- Drop snakey in dampened pillowcase.
- Tie pillowcase closed.
- Place pillowcase inside warm cage.
- Wait two hours.
- Remove pillowcase from cage.
- Open pillowcase.
- Remove snakey from pillowcase.
- Remark, "Oh my! What a pretty little snakey!"

Chris =)
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Chris, I have always used a shoe box or sweater box filled with around 1/2 to a inch of water and have never had any problems, I have soaked several different types of snakes also. I even used a very large rubber storage box to soak a 8ft boa that had 3 dry sheds on it, this boa was bad off and once I shedded him off it was a great snake. I would be carefull putting the snakes in a tied wet pillow case, because the water could constrict the airflow of the pillow case. I mean I am sure the case would dry out way before the snake sufforcated but if it was a small snake it might not dry out. Thanks David
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