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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by n/a[/i] [br]I keep shedding records, and it's a pity I didn't consult them before offering Shahi a meal last Monday. Since beginning to feed with me he sheds regularly every six weeks, so if I'd just bothered to glance at my notes I could have saved a nice big mouse. As it was I offered him the mouse in-viv, since he was up on his climbing branch, and he ran away from it and got into one of his seagrass box hides. Useful these - if he's in there I can just lift the whole thing out and lift the lid.. I was a bit puzzled; he never refuses his grub, but I thought I'd put him in a rub to feed, and rewarm the mouse ... then I realised. Blue eyes and a dusty skin. I apologised and replaced him. Shame about the mouse. He's had a damp hide in his viv ever since his last shed which was clean except for the tailtip, but in shreds, as usual. The hide is a small rub with a hole cut in the side with a hot knife, and lined with sphagnum moss. He's used this hide a couple of times, but moss gets smelly. I use kitchen roll now. By Wednesday his eyes were clearing and he was sleeping in his hollow bamboo beneath the infra red. I misted him in that, just to be on the safe side, although I know they're waterproof as soon as they go into blue. But, a little extra humidity ... Last night I kept checking him. Nothing. This morning, he was out on his branch. Looking very shiny and bright-eyed and smug. No sign of a shed but when I checked his hides for a pre-shed dump I found a ...[:0] thing, an alien! No, actually, it was the first time I'd seen a balled up shed. I unrolled it and it was damp and silky and perfect. From specs to tailtip. Clever lad![:)] Oh, and I found the dump in another hide. [:0] Any one of my large cats would have been proud of that! He's only 6 or 7 months old. No wonder he looked smug! A little snake in good working order! Well done Shahi![:)] [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.