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d_virginiana
Today's update: She's definitely getting ready to shed. Her face has started to go blue, and I'd expect her eyes to go within the next day or so. The skin on her back looks drier, but more connected; like it's getting ready to come off all at once like a proper shed.
One interesting thing though. When I was cleaning out her tub today, I noticed a very strange looking 'poo'. It was grey/green and very dense compared to normal. Also, it was formed into two solid lumps. Should have snapped a picture, but I had her out and there was no camera handy. My first thought was that they were slugs, but I figure that's not very likely in a two year old that's never mated?
My theory is that maybe her body is removing a lot more nutrients from the food than normal. She did essentially manufacture an entire outer skin in the span of a few days, so I guess that could be a possibility? Regardless, if anything starts looking bad I have access to a good exotics vet.
She's still acting normal, but I'm expecting that this will probably be an assist-shed. By the looks of things though, it should be less traumatic than the last one. I didn't realize at the time, but the degradation of her skin had already begun, so instead of being able to get the shed started and go from there, I had to remove the shed from each scale individually; took almost three days.
I really need to find the links and put this whole saga into one thread...
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