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Strawb
Yearling
Germany
120 Posts |
 Posted - 14/04/2011 : 20:46:06
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I'd like to keep Tia's old sheds as proof of her growing (can't always see these things when you see her every day).
Do they degrade over time? If so what is the best way of preserving and storing them?
Does anybody out there actually do this? |
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hodgie
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1197 Posts |
Posted - 14/04/2011 : 20:52:10
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| just hang them up next to the viv, they will be fine. |
Royals owned "lots"
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Posted - 14/04/2011 : 21:40:24
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Skins ... oh yeah, skins ....
18 months of skins in this house ... it's getting like Miss Havisham's with skins instead of spider-webs ...
They don't degrade.
Sentimentality eh? |
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noola
Snake Mite
United Kingdom
16 Posts |
Posted - 14/04/2011 : 22:24:34
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| My baby has just shed and i am planning on keeping them all. I have wrapped it up in tissue paper and boxed it up, My daughter who is 10 has taken it to school to show everyone. So hope i get it back in 1 piece.. |
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Strawb
Yearling
Germany
120 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 07:17:33
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| Thanks folks. I think I'll have to find some suitable receptacle to keep them in. My wife would draw the line at skins hanging around. |
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reptiledanny
Old Royal - I Post too much!
United Kingdom
2106 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 07:43:14
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| I have skins from 2008 from my baby corn lol, and they re still in perfect condition |
1.2 royal pythons 0.1 hog island boa 1.0 corn snake
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BlueDragon
Sub Adult
United Kingdom
876 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 11:13:28
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| I keep the skins. I kept every single one from my Corn snake, and now that Tig is giving me whole (ish) skins I'm going to keep them too : ) They don't degrade or rot, they're fine. |
Just me and my zoo. |
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sandi
Sub Adult
787 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 16:39:56
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| I work in a school art department so i take them in for the kids to use...collage, natural form studies ,that sort of thing. |
0.1.0 Royal Python - Florence
1.0.0 Boa Constrictor - Boris
1.1.0 Alaunts - Willow & Brochan |
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blackskull
Fully Grown Royal
United Kingdom
1278 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 17:19:24
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i have never kept the skins before but i have just started too. i have clovers first shed skin with me and cilla just shed today so will be keeping that too
i did take one to work left it under the outside table and had one of the blokes convinced it was an adders skin |
1.1 normal royal, sully, silver
0.1 pinstripe royal, penny
1.1 pastel royal, lars, clover
0.1 lesser royal, serenity
0.1 black pastel royal, betty
0.1 mojave royal, mavis
0.1 normal het clown
1.0 pastel het clown
1.0 nuclear, ned
1.0 super phantom
1.0 childrens python, myles
0.1 hog island boa
0.1 sonoran x boa, grace
0.0.1 mack snow leopard gecko, munchkin
4.1 cats, stan, dave, marble, binx, daisy
4.1 rabbits, mol, ted, bill, spud, alice
0.1 crazy cat/bunny lady of bridgwater, lucy |
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
4803 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 17:38:51
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| I never get skins in good enough condition to keep, they're either fallen apart or wet, slimey, covered in poo and wrapped up like little snakeskin condoms :( |
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Strawb
Yearling
Germany
120 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 21:08:26
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Tia's skin was also like a rolled up condom. Come on Kelfezond, you're not telling me that's the size condom you need?
I just carefully unrolled it and lay it out. The tail isn't attached, but my oldest son is a wizard with cellotape. |
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Posted - 15/04/2011 : 21:14:10
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LOL - DON'T tempt Kelfezond lol!
If a snakeskin is all rolled up and stuck together, just mist it a bit, and it can then be easily unrolled. |
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Kelfezond
The bearded one
United Kingdom
4803 Posts |
Posted - 15/04/2011 : 23:03:13
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| I used Pandora's skin ;) |
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7384 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2011 : 15:30:47
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Well, as a postscript ...
For a week or two now I've been aware of a most horrible smell in my livingroom. Obvious causes, such as a forgetful cat, dead prey brought in from garden, fishtank or condensation from fishtank, all eliminated ... not a rot smell or food or stale cigarette smell ... the best description I could find was to call it a 'dead frog smell'. not that I know what a dead frog smells like, but it had that stagnant quality ... been making me feel sick.
I had a huge bunch of snakeskins draped over a stoneware pot of dried seedheads. Dry, well-aired, clean, but that's what caused the smell.
I'm heartbroken. I loved those snakeskins. I was like a mother keeping a bit of her baby's hair and its first bootees.
But, oh boy, they didn't half pong!  |
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Lotabob
Royal Python Moderator
United Kingdom
5008 Posts |
Posted - 12/05/2011 : 23:12:10
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| I started going down the route of keeping them all but then I remembered that they live for 20 years, what possible use do I have with a drawer full of snakeskin so I decided I will keep their first skin and at some point I'm going to have them set in acrylic and the rest are going in the bin, or maybe start leaving them in supermarkets that is sure to get in the paper if someone finds a 3.5 foot long snake skin in their bananas. Look out Tesco I'm coming to get you. |
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Strawb
Yearling
Germany
120 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2011 : 07:23:27
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I am only intending to keep the skins as a measure of how Tia has grown. Once the skins have stopped increasing in size then I'll probably start binning the rest.
By the way, she had a big dump yesterday so I weighed her straight afterwards. She is now 708g. |
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prozacbear
Yearling
United Kingdom
130 Posts |
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scubadude
Yearling
United Kingdom
326 Posts |
Posted - 13/05/2011 : 16:58:08
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| I wanted to keep the 1st shed from each of my gang but wasn't sure how to keep them then had a flash of inspiration and remembered I had a laminator, problem solved, even now it's nice to look back at their 1st shed, it's only then you appreciate how fast they grow. |
1.0 Classic corn snake
2.3 Normal Royal
1.1 spider royal
1.0 Mojave Royal
1.0 Butter Royal
0.1 Pastel ph ghost Royal
1.0 Enchi Royal python
1.0 Pastel royal poss ???
1.1 Yellowbelly Royal
1.1 Cinnamon Royal
1.1 Fire Royal
1.1 100% het Clowns
1.1 Crawl cay boas
1.0 Hypo hog island boa
0.1 Hog island Boa
coming soon
0.1 Bumblebee
opinions are like ars*holes, everyone's got one, but you don't need to share them with the world. |
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Keeping the skins!
