New to this

[Shrimply]

It takes hardly any time after they break the skin. You are very lucky to catch him a lot of people miss it. He will look great afterwards. ;D

[John Pilling]

be sure to try feeding tonight with a small pinkie, and weather he takes it or not, wait another 5 days before feeding again. Congrats on catching him shedding, i've only cought 1 of mine in the 3-4 years i've been keeping them.....

[Shrimply]

Really only once, I have seen mine a couple of times. Then again you are probably much busier than I am.

[John Pilling]

5 snakes of my own at the min, 2 rescue cases coming innext week, and another rescue 1 i keep checking on (remember the hognose?).

[Shrimply]

Yeah it's a real looker. Hatchlings are £104 at my local reptile shop so your real lucky. Is it happy being handled?

[John Pilling]

It is now, but i no longer have it, (policy to do with temp housing and rehoming schemes), but a young lad i know age 13 has it, and he lives 200 yards away so i see peppie quite a lot. He's still not eating tho, and frogs and toads are hard to find this time of year, lol.

[lozzer]

£104!for a hoggy!jesus i can get them for £40

[Amber]

I must be lucky, cos I see my snakes shedding most times they do, I guess that comes with the lack of will to sleep.

I love hatchling hognoses, so tiny!

[molly]

ok. he has now been shedding for about 6 hours and i'm a bit concerned. it's only done about 3 inches. he's not really moving around that much. and when he does it doesn't really look like the skin is moving???

[Dave]

dont worry just leave him an he'l get threw it.
most of mine are just left to it an ive never had a problem with them yet (except for lightening's first shed, he didnt shed fully an it ended up me having to put a 6 foot boa in the bath to get the shed off)

[John Pilling]

You should have taken a pic of that Dave, roflmao.

[Dave]

oh it was such fun!

[Amber]

Hehe I can imagine, Armand is so much smaller, and he worries me when in a bad mood and being put in the bath...

[lee]

if its a newborn it still may be absorbing the yolksac from its egg and will feed after its first shed so its not a worrying time at the moment but saying that i have had the odd individual snake take pink mice straight from egg.
as vicki said keep the cage area small a small tuppleware tub with kitchen towel a small water bowl and hide is more than sufficient for a snake of that size as it makes them feel more secure
i don't spray my corns as they have a waterbowl and excessive humidity is not good for their health,my atb only gets sprayed twice a day and its a tropical snake that requires high humidity
with regards to length of time,it varies between 3-5 straight feeds without refusal but from petshops it really takes trust in your petshop as many do not have visible feeding/shedding records but i really hope you get it to feed molly
lee

[lee]

dave said:

dont worry just leave him an he'l get threw it.
most of mine are just left to it an ive never had a problem with them yet (except for lightening's first shed, he didnt shed fully an it ended up me having to put a 6 foot boa in the bath to get the shed off)

try putting a bigger waterbowl in there big enough for it to submerge itself,ive found big plastic storage boxes do the job well but they need to be long as much as they are deep or plastic dog baskets up to a certain height
lee

[molly]

He has still not shed this morning. probably got about 5 inches now. i have put him in a bowl with some tepid water but i'm beginning to get concerned. It has now been 18 hours since he started to shed

[Vicki]

Ok, you just need to leave him without disturbance. This is his first ever shed and he is just learning. By taking him out and bathing him you are stressing him and this may well result it you having difficulty feeding him. I know the soaking thing is the general rule for adults but he is new born and hasnt really be born long enough to have dried out so much that he cant shed.

Like lee said, put a water bowl in big enough for him to soak himself. I have had 25 hatchlings this year and not one of them has had problems shedding (besides my little hope who was ill). I cant say ive seen them shed as they are in a room where the only person that goes in is me and thats only once a day to check them.

Can you run through your set up for me please? Size, temp gradients, hides, substrate etc.

[molly]

Thanks for all your help.
Vicki, he is in plastic tank that the reptile shop sold me for baby snakes. It is about 15 inches long by 6 wide. It has a heat mat placed under one half and has a layer of newspaper then a thin layer of bark spread over. It has a cork hide placed across the centre of the tank so that half is on the warm side and half on the cool side. I do not have the thermometer in there, tho i do have one. the shopsaid i shouldn't need it in as the heat mat would be ok. He has a small water bowl on the cool side.
He has now shed. Tho,he was helped along. I was advised to hold him and let him wriggle around. 4 hours after shedding, i offered him a pinky. He has taken no notice of it and i was wondering how long i should leave him with it.

[John Pilling]

The pinkie should be ok till around 8pm tonight, ifs/he hasn't eaten after that time then dump the pinkie (or flush it). don't worry as the yolk should still be being digested, so try again in 5 days with a pinkie.

Your setup sounds ok, but i would still use the thermomitor on the warm side, and i would also add 2 toilet roll middles for hides as an alternative, 1 each on the warm/cool side as well as the cork.

[molly]

Have taken the pinky out. he was showing no interset at all. i did see him open his mouth really wide but at he time he was absolutely nowhere near the food! I think i will just leave him for 3 days and then try again. maybe he needs to settle down after the intervention with the shedding. He's not being handled, tho we do take the lid off and lift the bark to see him a few times. is that ok?