Garter tounge peeling?

[Brittany26]

Hello, not sure if this in right section as I feel this doesn't belong in Urgent Care. Anyway, for a while now (~past year or 2)
little pieces of my snakes tounge has been peeling off in a curly string. This doesn't happen often, but enough to question about it.
I've only seen about 10+ pieces in his lifetime. I googled this before but nothing came up, so I wondered maybe if you guys
have ever heard of this. I have a picture or two of this (although not in good quality) if you need to see one.

Thanks for reading this.

[snake man]

I would be very curius to see the pictures.

[Steveo]

I have heard that they also shed the skin on their tongues... but I have not witnessed it personally. Anyone know for sure?

[guidofatherof5]

I was amazed when I learned it but shedding tongue skin is normal.
Hard to see but I've witnessed it a number of times.

[Brittany26]

Not sure how clearly you can see these, as they were taken with a mg-1 camera..but here ya go.

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[snake man]

Wow. thats amazing!

[guidofatherof5]

Love that second photo. At first I thought "What is wrong with that snake".:D

[EasternGirl]

Hmmmm...interesting. I had also heard of tongue shedding, but I have never witnessed it in any of my snakes.

[ConcinusMan]

Hmmmm...interesting. I had also heard of tongue shedding, but I have never witnessed it in any of my snakes.

Nor have I. In fact, I never even heard of it. And I'm still trying to figure out what you guys are seeing. I can't see a dang thing in those photos.

[kibakiba]

I've seen it. Snakey rubbed his tongue on my finger and it peeled off.
You're blind if you cant see it.
:D

[ConcinusMan]

I didn't say I can't see it. I said I never have. Not in all my years of keeping them.

[guidofatherof5]

I didn't even know about it up until a couple years ago when someone posted about it.
Now, I've witnessed it a few times in my snakes.

[Invisible Snake]

I've never heard about it up until joining this forum. Can anyone post an independent link confirming that snakes actually do this?

[jaleely]

Never heard of it, and i guess i'm blind because i only see the third picture showing a blurry curl of something lol
Just looks like a snake flicking its tongue out, in the second one.

It'd be interesting to keep an eye out for. Some other weird shed i've noticed before was a shed of the actual anus from my sand boa. She shed this complete shed, with the vent scale showing, and a folded in part where it *was* her opening and the whole outter layer of her cloaca. Only snake shed i've seen like that. All the others seem to tear off at that part, and leave a "vent hole" in the shed.

I suppose it makes sense that the tongue would shed...sure weird though!

Here's what i could find:
http://theexoticvet.com/wp-content/uploads/Shedding.pdf

[guidofatherof5]

Good link Melissa.

[Light of Dae]

I've seen it on my boy George. Some time he sticks his tongue out slowly n moves it around slow. Its neat to see him do that! Let alone the time he did it n his tongue looked like it was falling off for a second, lol. Just a thin little piece of skin... looked like a baby earthworm slid out of his mouth.

I had read on here about snakes shed their tongues so I knew what it was n didn't worry bout it.