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    "PM Boots For Custom Title" d_virginiana's Avatar
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    Re: Potential shed issue

    Tonight is feeding night, so I'll go ahead and feed her then... I was messing with her a little earlier, and pieces of the shed are starting to flake off... Like, if I rub the skin between my fingers, I come away with a bunch of little scales on my hands.
    I'm not crazy worried about her yet, but this is definitely an abnormally long shed, so I figured it might be useful to put up pictures and document things on here in case it does turn into a real problem.

    On a side note, I am glad that, out of all the snakes, it's Harley that needs to be messed with like this. She just sits there in my hands while I'm messing with her skin and even messing with her lip scales (didn't do that too much, because it wasn't happening easily, and I didn't want to do any damage...). But she's been treating it kind of like spa day or something. Never nipped, or tried to bolt, or pooed or anything.

    Quote Originally Posted by guidofatherof5 View Post
    The last photo certainly doesn't look like any kind of a retained shed. Looks normal.
    Yeah, that's from a couple months ago, I was just using it as a color comparison for how weirdly dark she's gotten.
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    "Third shed In Progress" kimbosaur's Avatar
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    Re: Potential shed issue

    Quote Originally Posted by d_virginiana View Post
    Tonight is feeding night, so I'll go ahead and feed her then... I was messing with her a little earlier, and pieces of the shed are starting to flake off... Like, if I rub the skin between my fingers, I come away with a bunch of little scales on my hands.
    I'm not crazy worried about her yet, but this is definitely an abnormally long shed, so I figured it might be useful to put up pictures and document things on here in case it does turn into a real problem.
    This happened to my baby albino a little while back. The skin looked dry and little scale-sized flakes would come off on my hands. At one point, only his back half looked very wrinkly and the general consensus was that it was a partial retianed shed. HOWEVER, immediately after producing a complete shed, the skin at the back half still appeared wrinkled. It seemed to go away after a few clean sheds.
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