wild baby albino garter snake care advice

[guidofatherof5]

I think within the next week your girl will shed. That photo of the cloudy eye really seals it.

[WarriorPrincess]

Caspers eyes would cloud up like that too right before a shed. In photo 2 that I posted you can see a fake green plant I put on the aquarium glass that she could climb through that assisted in her shedding process. Anything like that they can wrap around and wiggle through helps. Her first shed was on a stick I had put in. It was enough for her to get traction against but the fake plant worked best to get it off in one piece all the time. I will try to find a photo that shows it better.

[WarriorPrincess]

ok here are a couple photos I found of it. It worked very well for sheds.IMG_0736.jpgIMG_1666.jpg

[user]

2.26g today.

Her eyes aren't blue now and she still does not want food but I heard that is something that they can do while shedding. She did sniff it again though. I'm going to shed box her after I take a shower.

[guidofatherof5]

She should shed within the next few days. I hope you wake up one morning and find a complete shed in her home. Many garters will soak, then you will find the shed wrapped around the water bowl.
Not sure how you are doing it but weekly or every two week weights work good. It keeps the stress down until she is completely settled in with you.

[guidofatherof5]

In some of my enclosures I use fake plants, my garters will fill those plants with sheds. I make a bundle out of the fake ivy.

[user]

She's shedding! It looks like it's a perfect shed like when you take a sock off, so excite!

[user]

I mean like when you take it off and it comes off inside out. Not the other kind where you scrunch it up but there is a video, my gf is here for just tonight and her phone was here.

[guidofatherof5]

Awesome, was it a complete shed? Look for both eye caps and the tip of the tail.
With good food and a steady supply of it expect a number of sheds as your girl tries hard to get out of that "Happy Meal" stage. Keep doing what you are doing.

[user]

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Woke up and she had a full shed with both eye caps off (wrapped around her water bowl lol) and I'm 99% sure all her tail is off too from looking the shed over, I did break the tippy tip off trying to invert the last mm or so of it. She ate a big slug today. Her eyes are dark red, it's cool. So shiny. I still have the mouse so I can start trying to get her to eat that again in the coming days. I'm happy now because it's now looking stable. She eats and poops and drinks, is alert, sheds well, and her wounds are healing good. One of the last things is varying her diet. She can also move much better now that she shed, she is fast as ****.