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Shedding issue...2 cohab'd females

arparaspolo

arparaspolo

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I know, I know, a lot of you are going to suggest not cohabitation. It is something I am comfortable with(I have read and seen pictures of the dangers). Ok. Now that that is out of the way lol. I have an Anery and a Fire. I got both of these beauties from two different pet stores a week apart early January and were a few months old. They are about a foot long each. The anery is slightly larger which to me indicates she is slightly older.
My Issue...
My Anery(Anna) had a rough shed her first shed way back when. She has since had 2 perfect sheds(one last night) while my Fire(Molly) always has rough sheds. 4 since I have had her. She will shed in patches and I have to end up helping her with the rest. I run luke warm water and hand soak her while applying slight pressure on the areas in question. It usually takes about 10 minutes to remove what she didn't. My temps are 74ish on the cool side and 85ish on the warm. I am using an UTH. Normally I would say that one or more of my settings were off causing the bad shed. But being that Anna & Molly (Anna Molly by Incubus n_n) live together, wouldn't that rule out any problems such as too hot or cold or not humid enough?

I guess my real question is, could this be something else? Something causing the bad sheds? An illness or disease? I have attached two pictures. One shows some shed left on Molly and one shows their size relative to each other.
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I wish there was an edit button :/

"a lot of you are going to suggest not cohabitation" should have read "a lot of you are going to suggest against cohabiting"
 
Not all snakes react the same to similar stimulants... It may be humid enough for one of your snakes, but not humid enough for the other. Also, this could be an issue with keeping them together. I am not sure exactly how, but just stating the obvious thing that could be wrong here.
My suggestion would be to separate the two, and keep the humidity up a little higher for the fire to see if that works out for you.
Also, if it were an illness or disease, I would separate them anyways because that lessens the chance of your Anery catching whatever it could be. But it seems to be a humidity issue to me.

Another note, Not many members like to have the "I know the risks but I choose to do it anyway" line thrown in their face at the beginning of a thread, it makes it seem as though you want to start another one of "those threads"...
 
Rather than your usual method of helping with the stuck shed, put a snake in a 'snake-o-bath', a feeding tub with a wet washcloth in, and the shed will come off as it moves around in there without potentially damaging the new scales. Have you tried putting a humid hide in when a shed is due?
 

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I didn't realize that my opening statement could start a fire. That isn't what I was intending and I do apologize if that offended anyone. I was trying to cut to the chase and wasn't thinking. I will up the humidity a bit and monitor them more closely. If the next shed doesn't go smoothly I will be off the the pet store to buy her her own place to live. She is due for a shed soon.
 
I will definitely try the wash cloth set up once she is about to shed. I am going to put a humid hide asap. Your pic kinda looks like a used condom on a pair of jeans. lol.
 
That was just an observation from past discussions on subjects where the OP had a valid question, but made that statement before asking... Things quickly got ugly in the thread...

What you should do is get in touch with Snakearound, she cohabs successfully with a few of her snakes, and would be able to give you some pretty good advice.

Most people in the US who keep snakes, and have done research decide against cohabing, but there are some who are successful at it. Just make sure that your snakes are really both female, and that it wasn't just what the pet store guy told you.

About 90% of the time, the guy in the pet store doesn't know what he is talking about, and those that have been doing it for years and years, about half of them have been doing it wrong for a long time... (that was a nice conversation with a local pet store guy here....LOL)
 
arparaspolo said:
I will definitely try the wash cloth set up once she is about to shed. I am going to put a humid hide asap. Your pic kinda looks like a used condom on a pair of jeans. lol.
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Haha! It is a bit of an odd image without the explanation of what it really is! Hopefully your next shed will be better.
 
I myself cohab some of my corns for parts of the year, but I must say when one of them would have a bad shed, and there are no problems with the humidity, I would separate them. Cohabbing stress is indeed a possible reason for this, especially if she has always been having bad sheds.
But you have a good idea there. Watch them and the humidity very closely and go on from there.
Like has been said, you might want to confirm their sex. Not only do some people not know what they are doing and might just say whatever they like, sometimes it might be an honest mistake in sexing. You would want to be sure about this.
 
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