can you watch it happening, or does it happen too slowly for that?
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It starts with the old skin loosening from the new skin. The snake with take on a dull sheen and the eyes will become cloudy. This can take upto two weeks to go thru. The actual shedding takes very little time, 10-30 mins. They start with their nose, rubbing it on a rock or tree. It doesn't take much for the skin to catch on something, the snake wiggles out of it and then it just pulls off the body. Most of the time, this is done in one piece but not always. Our Ball python often sheds his skin in a million bits and pieces.
The molting process would take place pretty quickly, I would imagine. If you've ever seen a picture of a molting snake, you'll notice its skin trailing after it, in one piece. It appears as if the snake is crawling out of it. If molting happened as slowly as a dog sheds fur, bits of the snake's skin would be left wherever the snake went.
I would often help my snakes shed.
when they are rubbing the skin off their faces, I would wait until they got past their eyes. then I'd help them out.
Slowly and usually in one piece I'd get a fully shedded skin :0)
Not all snakes do the single shed thing. I was able to do that with Bullsnakes, boas, and one king snake. It did not work with all King snakes or garter snakes. It just kinda came off in pieces.
So shedding can take from one hour to 4 days that I have seen.
you can watch it in days it take about 12 days for a full shed when it shedding its skin if your lucky enough you an watch it but it will take about 12 days and you will notice when it will happen in most snakes the colors get duller and there eyes will turn blueish then about 7-8 days later you will see a shed
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