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My snakes looks as if they are drying out

ROACHMAN

ROACHMAN

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hi guys , i have many snakes and i have a problem with specifically the corns, i stay in south africa , so i will be using degrees celcius and the metric system.
My corns are about a year old , and i keep them in desert dens with astro turf the deset den is about 40 x 25 x 15 cm and seeing that it is sub 1 year corns that should be big enough for them.
Ok but that is not the problem , i looks like all the corns has a humidity problem , but none of the other snakes i keep in exactly the same environment , black rats , texas rats , milks and kings.
i have a cage that takes 3 desert dens which is totally closed except for the air vents and the glass door, then in the back of the big cage ( - will be calling it a shelf from here ion, like a shelf with a door ) there is a 2 litre dish with water in the back of the main shelf .
Each of the desert dens has a 1 litre dish in them as well , so i thought there are ample humidity in there , but my corns gets like a leather type look to them , and i have also lost a corn because of this , they stop feeding and it just goes downhill from there , could anyone please help with this problem , or has anyone experienced the same type of problem ?

Even if i put the snake in a seperate cage with towling paper that is soaking wet it does not loose the shed, cause it looks like it is too thich oin the snake.

:shrugs:
 
my temp

the temp gets to about 26 degrees celsius....gees nearly read your caption wrong miss cornstar :)
 
How do their sheds look? Or aren't they shedding at all? The wet towel solution sounds good to me, but if the snake still has some layers of shed on them it's not enough. Try soaking them in cool, not hot (water should feel slightly cool to you) water untill they've lost all their layers of skin.

Whats the humidity in your cage now?
 
Your temperatures seem OK, how odd, I think I will have to leave this to the experts here! good luck I hope you get a resolution to this problem.
 
my humidity

the humidity is about +/- 60 % , should i turn up the heat to make it more humid ? ..i have 50 snakes , and it is only the corns ...weird :eek1:
 
Stange. You can turn the heat up a bit, not to much, but you can also place an extra bowl of water in the viv. Or move the exsisting bowl to the warm eara of the viv if you haden't already done so. I don't know if this will help though. I leave that question to the experts on this forum.
 
SUCCESS !!! ....i left the anery for 2 days in papertowel with water and everything came off lovely, it then proceded to eat 4 pinks ...thanx guys , i think i must up the temp a bit thanx for the suggestion ,..more heat = more evaporation = more humidity :flames:
 
thanx , it seems with the winter now passing it is getting much better , it looks like the winters here in joburg is a bit dry for the snakes , next winter i will be adding bucketloads of water to the cages....just to be sure.
 
You might try a moist hide. Some kind of a container with moist (not wet) substrate like peat moss or sphagnum moss.
 
Hi clint havent heard form you in ages :) ...i was offline for a long time , but my collection has grown....i recognise your name from about when this started ...happy herping :)
 
Yes, I've been here since this site began.

I'm glad you're back, this site has really taken off. Lots of good stuff here.
 
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