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[kibakiba]

Snap and Squirt are opaque now. This will be Snap's 4th shed and Squirt's first. I'm excited to see how lovely they'll look with the sheds off. I've been misting my room and their tanks a lot to help with the humidity.


Mama learned a new "trick". It's called "go-to-the-top-of-the-tank-to-beg-for-food-with-mouth-open." After I had fed the babies their holiday dinner, I decided to give the left overs to Mama and Snakey. Right when I picked up the dish and hemostats, Mama came up to the top of the tank with her mouth open and sat there... At first I was a little worried about her and went to pick her up to see what was wrong with her and she bit at me, then went back to the "give food!" position. I dropped a piece of worm in her mouth and she swallowed it and opened her mouth again, more food goes in and she opens her mouth again after swallowing. It was so funny watching her follow the hemostats with her mouth open when I was trying to give Snakey some, who also started doing that. They might have seen Runt do it, she does that if the food is near her but she's too lazy to grab it. I wish I got it on camera.

[gregmonsta]

Lol nothing wrong with eager feeders.

[ConcinusMan]

That's cute. All my little ones do that too. I can't go anywhere near the tank without them all rushing out with their heads in the air. "oh food! gimmie food!"

[kibakiba]

My mom said they look like baby birds doing that, and in a sense, they do. When I'm changing the water in the baby's tank they all come up to my hand, avidly searching for food. I made the mistake of eating my dinner (salmon) in my room while I was backing up my computer and then changed the water... Snap bit me 10 times. I have little swollen lumps all over my finger and a little near my palm. The others looked like they were going to ambush me, but they quickly hid after I pushed snap away and after the 10th bite I grabbed her and put her in "time out"... The feeding tank, just to keep her from biting me even more. She hung onto me like our dog does to her favorite toys, you can lift her up and she wouldn't even care.She had a pretty tight grip on me and definitely wanted some food, even though she still has a bulge... That fat woman...

[kibakiba]

Snap shed perfectly from head to tail, poor little Squirt retained his though. He retained it half way through. I've been trying to help him get it off but it's really stuck on there. I've tried using a paper towel with warm water on it, a warm damp washcloth, tweezers and my fingers. The tweezers have worked the best so far, but he doesn't like being touched or soaked in water. He also didn't seem to like being in a humid and warm hide. I feel bad for him, and it seems odd that my northwesterns have been retaining their sheds, but my concinnus have been fine. I try to keep the humidity in my room as high as possible since I have the mini heater running a lot of the time. I mist my room as often as I can, I'm sensitive to low humidity also, it causes nosebleeds.
Mama has also been very energetic and restless seeming. It's odd for her to move around very much, she's kinda like me. She likes to relax and sleep a lot. I figured maybe she just has a lot more energy because she ate 2 pinkies and 3 worms on christmas day, but she's eaten it before and was never that active. Maybe she wants to try my new DVD with me... Rachel Brice: Serpentine Belly Dance.

[guidofatherof5]

You could put Squirt in a shed box for a few hours then run warm water at the point of the stuck shed. I've had a few radixes with the same problem. It happens every once in awhile.
Fast moving warm water usually will start the old shed coming off. Then just work it down the body.
Squirt may not like some of this but this must be one of the times your the boss.
He can be in charge the rest of the time

[ConcinusMan]

The longer it stays on, the harder it's going to be to get it off.

[kibakiba]

The more I do to try to get it off, the more he bites me. I don't like stressing him out at all and I don't like him biting because his teeth could break. I'm not affected by his bites as badly as I am since he's so tiny, but after a few bites in the same place it does start to swell a little and sting. I'll try using the shed box again. Hopefully I can get the rest off. It's near his cloaca now, so at least I made a little progress after 4 hours.

[ConcinusMan]

I know, it's a PITA but it must come off. A little baby oil, mineral oil, or even cooking oil might help. It tends to get under the old skin and help separate it from the new skin. If you can only get it started, completely around his girth, then maybe he can finish it.

[kibakiba]

Yeah, I know. I had him in the shed box for about 30 minutes and managed to get it to below the cloaca... But now he's fussing even more. He squirted musk and poop in my face, too. I think that's when you know he's *really* upset. Luckily it's almost oover and hopefully I won't get a poop mask again.