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Shedding... how often?

SteveP

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Forgive my ignorance but how often should my 2011 baby be shedding. I have owned many snakes in my time but never a juvi corn. W have had her just over a month now and she went blue the day after I picked her up from FedEx and finished her shed on 1/9. She went blue on us again this morning. I am not complaining as she seems super healthy and growning like a danged weed. We've been feeding some rather large almost fuzzy size pinkies and then also given her a coupl split hoppers for the extra calciumand to just break it up a little as well. She poos about 3 days after a feed, viv runs 85/87 on the warm side and 81/79 cold side with a 7 degree drop at night. We feed every 5-6 days. Again just curious as to what I should expect here I'm new to juvi snakes in general as most of mine have been larger pythons and boas thyat were or nearly were adult size.

Steve
 
That sounds just right :) I've had a baby shed and then go blue again within 3 weeks. You'll notice that as she grows she won't shed as much. My year and a halflings shed about every month and a half still. Corns are a lot different than pythons. My ball has only shed about 13 times in his three years (he's only 3 years old), where my corns do that in half the time.
 
my baby didn't shed for 8 weeks when I first got him and since then he's shed every 3 weeks almost to the day.
 
Cool beans and thanks for the replies yall' I didn't think it was an issue but was curious as to how often I might expect it.

Steve
 
Also, the shed process slows down as they grow. My adults shed 3 or 4 times a year.
 
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