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Cazador · 03-01-2007, 05:45 PM

Hey Matt,

That's a lot of skin hanging off the left spectacle. I think you could easily wet it and pull it off with your fingers or with tweezers. If you decide to do this, wet the snake's head twice and give it at least 30 seconds for the water to be absorbed by the old skin. Then put the snake in a pillowcase (or similar) with only its head extending. Hold the snake firm enough that its head can't wiggle around, and brace your snake hand against your leg, a table top, or something steady. Then grab the extra skin in your fingers if possible, or with tweezers and slowly pull it off. I'm sure the old, opaque skin is stressing your snake. If you're not comfortable doing this, get it in the wet bag right away. If the spectacle rips and leaves you without a good "handle," don't try to get too close to the eye with the tweezers. Just be real careful and make sure you have good lighting.

James' method has the advantage that the snake may simply rub the moist spectacle off itself as it's moving around inside the wet bag.
Rick

P.S. Is the right spectacle still on its eye, too?

03-01-2007, 05:45 PM	#36 (permalink)
Cazador Moderator Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Alaska, USA Posts: 1,611	Re: Snake Update Hey Matt, That's a lot of skin hanging off the left spectacle. I think you could easily wet it and pull it off with your fingers or with tweezers. If you decide to do this, wet the snake's head twice and give it at least 30 seconds for the water to be absorbed by the old skin. Then put the snake in a pillowcase (or similar) with only its head extending. Hold the snake firm enough that its head can't wiggle around, and brace your snake hand against your leg, a table top, or something steady. Then grab the extra skin in your fingers if possible, or with tweezers and slowly pull it off. I'm sure the old, opaque skin is stressing your snake. If you're not comfortable doing this, get it in the wet bag right away. If the spectacle rips and leaves you without a good "handle," don't try to get too close to the eye with the tweezers. Just be real careful and make sure you have good lighting. James' method has the advantage that the snake may simply rub the moist spectacle off itself as it's moving around inside the wet bag. Rick P.S. Is the right spectacle still on its eye, too? Last edited by Cazador; 03-01-2007 at 06:07 PM.