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Posted by Kenny Wray on June 25, 2000 at 21:03:25:

In Reply to: ??? posted by Shannon on June 25, 2000 at 20:12:02:

: My Rat Snakes scales are coming off one at a time but I dont think she is sheding. I'm not sure how to explain it other then it looks like she scraped them on something but theres nothing she could have dont that one. I've had a cardboard hidebox for her that i keep moist with a heater on underneath it. This hasn't helped her. She just does not look like shes sheding. Its just in patches such as her underside and on her tail and behind her head. She is wild caught. I've never had a snake do this before. I noticed this a week and a 1/2 ago. The only thing in her cage is a large water bowl, a cardboard hidebox and some drift wood. The bedding is Aspen and shes in a 40 gallon critter cage. Is she not getting enough humididty or something?
: Shannon

If it is single shed scales (and not actual scales) then there is a humididty problem. Did she go opaque? If she did and is now having a problem shedding, take a pillow case and soak it, ring it out a little (not totally) and place her in it, leave her for a day (or two) and this should take care of it.
Later, KW.

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: : My Rat Snakes scales are coming off one at a time but I dont think she is sheding. I'm not sure how to explain it other then it looks like she scraped them on something but theres nothing she could have dont that one. I've had a cardboard hidebox for her that i keep moist with a heater on underneath it. This hasn't helped her. She just does not look like shes sheding. Its just in patches such as her underside and on her tail and behind her head. She is wild caught. I've never had a snake do this before. I noticed this a week and a 1/2 ago. The only thing in her cage is a large water bowl, a cardboard hidebox and some drift wood. The bedding is Aspen and shes in a 40 gallon critter cage. Is she not getting enough humididty or something? : : Shannon : If it is single shed scales (and not actual scales) then there is a humididty problem. Did she go opaque? If she did and is now having a problem shedding, take a pillow case and soak it, ring it out a little (not totally) and place her in it, leave her for a day (or two) and this should take care of it. : Later, KW.

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