Albino Burmese Python?

Question

Ok we just got our snake named her fluffy yadda yadda. she is starting to shed her skin her eyes are cloudy we know thats a sign of shedding.
She is really crabby and eats alot. Within a week she has had a mouse, and two dwarf hamster.
the guy who had he before didnt feed her enough cause she is a year and a half and only four feet long.
What are some things we can do to help her shed faster?

Answer 1

You can't rush her. She will get the skin off when it is ready. If her eyes are cloudy, that means she is just beginning the process. The eyes will clear back up and shedding will occur after that. It could take as much as a week to 10 days for the entire process.

Also, as far as feeding her, mice and hamsters are too small. She needs a larger rat or even a baby chick. Make sure you don't overfeed. One appropriate sized food item once a week will be fine.
Make sure her cage temps and humidity levels are good,that she has a waterbowl and everything should go smoothly.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

ok well i have a Colombian Red Tail Boa and shes still little but even if the guy didnt feed her much before you got her that dosent mean you should gorge her now either. depending on how big you python is depends what you should feed it but the common rule is something as big around as the snake no bigger. and since shes still pretty little i would feed her every 7-10 days and just one big rat or something. as for the shedding if her eyes JUST got cloudy in the last few days then its going to be awhile. my snake just got done shedding. her eyes turned cloudy then really milky where i couldnt even see black then went completly back to normal. then it will take about 2-3 days to shed. but the only thing i know of to make it go smoothly is keep humidty around 50-60% in the cage and temp around 80-90 and then also fill the bath with warm water and put her in there and let her soak about 45 minutes. DONT pull the shed at all it could cause problems. just let the snake do the work. just keep soaking her. i do it about 3 times a week she really likes it. thatys about it. if you have anything else you wanna ask me fell free to [e-mail] im on alot or email me i have messanger to so fell free. gl and be patient and caring.

Answer 3

Albinos will grow the same as normals. Check out the albino ball pythons online. The piebald ones are sweet too. Get ready to shell out some bucks though because they are pricey. You will not be able to make a profit selling Burmese pythons, because wholesalers won't give you more than $10 or so for them and you won't be able to find enough pet stores to sell all of them. My point is that if you are going to go through all the trouble of raising snakes, raise ones that are going to be worth something. Plus, ball pythons rarely grow over 6 feet. I have one that I got back in '96 and it is still only 4 feet.

Answer 4

Hello,

First of all I will give you a forewarning. Albino burms are prone to shedding problems. If you want it to come off in one piece, then you will want to ensure that humidity is boosted to about 80-85%...no higher than 90% (However, once she is done shedding you need to drop the humidity back to about 60-70%).

As far as getting her to shed "faster", personally my recommendation would be NOT to rush it. Allow her to take her time in the process otherwise you can cause undue stress or if she would have been fine in the shedding process, you might cause her not to shed properly. The most common thing for many snakes to have problems shedding can be the eyecaps, so be prepared if you have to remove these yourself.

The best thing to do with any snake in this process is to ensure that her environmental conditions are setup properly so that she can shed successfully. Do NOT rush her.

Take care,

Chris

Answer 5

When I had a snake with problems shedding, I bought a medium sized cheap rubbermaid type plastic storage box that would fit in his cage. I cut a hole six inches wide in the top of the lid--big enough that he could crawl in and out easily. I put in about 3 inches of water and set it inside his cage and left it alone.

Over the next several days the snake spent much of his time in the box soaking. I changed the water every day so it wouldn't stink. It softened up the old skin and he shed off just fine. Everytime I saw his eyes getting kinda dull I gave him his water box and never had any more problems.

Answer 6

The simplest solution to your problem is to give your snake a very large water bowl, then put a heat lamp above it. It will give her room to soak if she wants to and will \cause enough evaporation to increase the humidity enough in her cage. Gentle rubbing on areas that seem problematic will cause no harm, but do not scratch or anything it will damage the new fragile scale beneath. Best Luck!

Answer 7

Put a rough rubbing rock or concrete/brick in her vast vivarium, with places to hide(Think of her psychological needs, a constrictor sometimes likes to hide in daylight . keep the the temp up to 85/90F 30/35C or more, (If no spurs near her anus, she is a she, spurs, two claws, she is a male). Want her to grow to 3 metrers in 2 years? feed her free of charge, male chicks from hatcheries, males don't lay eggs! they are free! Freeze them, put any medicine or vit's inside dead chicks. buy a book on herpotology, you will find it in blackwells of Oxford or on the net, not cheap, it's an obscure subject. Handle her three times a week, she smells with her tounge, let her know you, get lazy when she, like my plain Burmese, is 5 metrers, and she can cut your arm off!!!!! Ask at the Cotswald wild life park, the herpotologist has a 30 inch scar! HANDLE HER. Want to know more? Join the London herpotological society at London Zoo. Or try to contact me, i live near Burma (Myanmmar) as it is now called. I have caught wild cobras with my bare hands, I like snakes. Try not to touch her whilst she has milky eyes, she is blind and frightened. Live food, but not agressive, small rats or mice, are good for her. As she grows bigger, feed her live chickens. Don't let anyone see her kill, they can get upset enough to call it cruel, but reallity is, your snake is not in a real world. Tony from Oxford, now living in remotest Indo-China. 360 or [e-mail].

Answer 8

when I had my bull snake she liked to rub on rocks to shed so try some more or less smooth ones