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 How can I help?

Ok, I’ve has this Cali. Kingsnake for nearly 2 weeks now, she’s currently in shed for the (I think) 3rd day. I still think she’s a bit scared of me, but I really want to hold her. I’ve wanted a snake ever since I petted this giant python when I was like 3 or something, and I finally got one, 10 years later (O_O)

Anyways, I’ve only held this girl once (at the pet shop) and she’s been hiding under 2 sheets of newspaper under her hut-like rock. I’ve been spraying the enclosure once every day, but since she’s under so many things, I don’t think she’s getting of the humidity. Should I take her out for a warm soak and risk a snip? (I’m also quite terrified of her XD I don’t know why. Seriously, don’t even laugh about it O_O)
08/14/09  07:56am

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   Message To: Lins51387   In reference to Message Id: 2056703


 How can I help?


All my snakes get moist sphagnum moss hides. When they are in blue (pre-shed, their eyes get cloudy and their scales look dull) they love to go in the moss hides. This helps them with the humidity. You can make a moss hide out of any suitable small container; here I have used a pint cottage cheese container. Fill it with clean sphagnum moss that you have squeezed the excess water out of. Make an entrance hole in the side, and put the lid on, and invert it.

No need to be afraid of your little snake. Even if she does bite you the bite will feel no worse than being pinched by a clothes pin. None of my 7 kings or 4 gopher snakes or 2 bull snakes has ever tried to bite me, although one of the big gophers did taste me once, and it didn’t hurt, just felt funny.



08/14/09  08:08am

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   Message To: Greatballzofire   In reference to Message Id: 2056707


 How can I help?

Thanks, but I don’t know where to get the moss, and Shadow (my snake) doesn’t even go out of her burrow (or something) to drink, so I don’t know if she would want to go into the hide. She probably won’t even know it’s there -_-

BTW, I’ve seen that pic for the 5th time around RZ You’d better get a new one XD



08/14/09  08:19am

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Oh yeah, never mind. I just saw, with my own eyes, her peeling her skin off on her rock (it’s hollow, a little hide for her)
08/14/09  09:21am

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 How can I help?

Ok, half of her skin came off. But that’s good enough for now! XXDD
08/14/09  09:37am


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