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My adult sorong import had a rough first year. She has only recently begun feeding but since I found the magic of soft furs she's taken about a dozen meals. Before she took her first meal she was thin but not awful looking... and then she went into a shed and overnight became a nasty wrinkled mess and looked near death. She has since shed, though incompletely despite frequents mistings/baths but interestingly the shed portions (almost the whole snake) now look fine and the head and neck are still wrinkled. Do they "suck in" to try to loosen the outer layer of skin??
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"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only to what we know of it."

Just wondering what type of enclosure you have? Im pretty new to chondros myself but hopefully with an idea of your enclosure and some details on your husbandry some more experienced folks or myself may be able to help you a little better. I hope she pulls through her funk!

I'm assuming the portions that are still wrinkled are the parts that haven't shed out completely? If so, you're going to need to get those off. Try a tub with a small amount of warm water in it and a wet towel. Leave her in there for a few hours or even overnight. You will need holes for air of course, and if leaving her for extended periods, you'll need a heat mat under one end to keep the water from getting too cold. They usually work off the shed in a few hours, but sometimes it take longer. Never use a wet pillow case. I've heard of 3 incidences now where a snake has smothered from not being able to breath in the wet cloth. One of them was a friend who lost a favorite chondro that way. I had one chondro baby that was a difficult shed a few times. Always looked terrible before shed and even after for a while. After the second bad shed, I didn't have any more problems. For a while I'd really soak the substrate before shed...and I mean soak to the point that after shed, I'd have to clean the cage out, but now, she sheds perfectly without issues. Hopefully yours will get to that point now that she's getting the proper nutrition.
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She's in an exo-terra cage with live plants. I spray down most every day and bath her in a tupperware about every 2-3 days to soak and hydrate fully.

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"Nothing happens in contradiction to nature, only to what we know of it."

I would try soaking her like Meg said. You want the water warm but not hot, and deep enough that her belly touches the bottom of the container and her back is just barely exposed from the water. Emeralds are infamous for it and Im sure GTPs could be too, but they can drown themselves if too deep.