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Tough to tell when Ty is in blue

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chag67

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Ty is a Gold Dust motley. I offer him a small fuzzy since he is 29 gm. He refused, so naturally I was a bit confused. I put him back in his viv and was going to wait until next week to offer again. I notice a couple of hours later in his viv a full shed (eye caps and all). I guess that is why he refused, so I will offer him the small fuzzy tomorrow.

My "problem is that because of his color, it is difficult to tell when he is in blue. He doesn't really get "dull". I need to pay more attention to his eyes when he gets around the 6 week mark. He shed 7 weeks and 3 days from his last shed.

I am thankful that since I acquired Ty, both of his sheds have been complete. Let's me know that I have his humidity just right.
 
There are two easy clues. He will become inactive. If you miss this- weigh him at each feeding. If his weight increases more than usual, he hasn't pooped, and is blue.
 
The inactive part is tough because Ty is pretty lazy. I rarely see him out of his hides. I'm pretty sure he is active at night but I'm sleeping. I just got my scale fixed so I plan on weighing him every feeding.
 
Even with pale colored snakes if you start paying attention you'll notice a change in color just before a shed. Our hypo plasma is a very pale snake but she'll go to almost a solid ashy white color just before a shed and the day after the ashy white scales she'll still get the solid blue eyes. I had never seen any signs either until I saw her in her viewable hide just before a shed. Like Nanci said though if he disappears for about 3-4 days and you haven't seen him at all then you can pretty much gurantee he's heading into a shed.
 
What is interesting with Ty is that he didn't get to ornery when I was handling him yesterday and even today right before he shed. It seems I have a corn that doesn't mind being handled before shed but won't eat before shed. I can live with that. Lol. I would much rather him be calm, laid back, and docile, especially with my son.
 
Yeah ours is pretty docile and trusting when she's in shed even when she's in full on blue she doesn't stress. Her skin is really sensitive for a day or two after the shed though and so she'll hide then. Now that I can tell when she's shedding I don't feed her if she's at or past the capped eyes stage but she has no problem eating during a shed as long as she can see. Overall ours is a really great girl and she's very relaxed as well.
 
Ty apparently doesn't like to eat after a shed. I'm just going to wait until next feeding time to offer him. Especially since I'm upping his food size to fuzzies. He ate one about 4 weeks ago. Regurged the next one a week later. He's been back on pinkies the past 2 weeks. Here's to hoping he keeps the next fuzzie down this Sunday.
 
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