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Keeping the sheds

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I recently tossed out my collection of almost 50 ( :D ) corn sheds. I started keeping them about 6 years ago. They were sentimental, and I planned on one day pinning them on a display case for used for dried insects. I had them organized in layers for each snake I had for awhile that shed. We had some basement flooding and they were in a cardboard box that was soaked and very musty smelling by the time I found it. Very depressing. I might've had some notion they would be educational(documenting growth history?) when I started.
Anyway, I've started saving them again out of habit, I guess. Does anyone also save their snakes' sheds, or am I just strange?
 
ive got a few lying around that i Cut down the middle and dried flat. The cats mostly like to attack them/eat them, so they are piled on top of all my tall stuff to prevent cat consumption... i cant imagine they are much good for the furballs anyway.

sometimes i keep them, sometimes i don't, it all depends on if im in the mood to unroll them and hang them to dry pretty.
 
i keep Flickas at over 9' and her being 7' i have given to ppl who display them on their office walls, one being in a high level prison. she just shed yesterday but it was all torn up, its impressive thats for sure.
 
I keep most of my snakes sheds. I put them in a ziploc bag and put a date on them. I don't know why, I just think they're cool.
This is off topic, but I saw people sell their snakes shed skin for $10 on ebay.
 
Hey All,

Seeing as I have a couple thousand sheds per year it would be impossible to hold onto them all however I do keep a few, each for thier own reasons.

Animals like gaboons and canebrakes make really nice art pieces is split down the belly pinned out on cardboard and stiffened with spray starch/hairspray, or spay lacquer.

I have a few large surinam and argentine boas that I regularly save the sheds becuase of thier impressive size to give to school teachers for thier class.

One other important shed I keep is on my hypo b.p's-as they have white patternless sheds compared to regular balls that leave pattern on thier sheds. Sometimes the babies do not look too much different then a light colored normal so I use the shed to prove them to customers if they are not looking so hot on sale day.

Thanks
ben cole
 
sheds

I too have kept a few sentimental sheds over the years. I have them in a closet hanging over a hanger. They are memories of the larger snakes I used to keep. (Surinams mainly) Periodocally I will donate one to someone who may need it for some type of reptile education program.
 
I myself always keep the full sheds off of the bigger guys(over 10 feet) because they are impressive. The biggest problem is alot of my snakes piss in them or worse, plus all my current stuff is pretty small, my biggest being less than 8 feet at the time(will change very soon between having burms, retics and rocks). Once these guys all get bigger I will keep them. I never kept like my ball python sheds or the glades rat snake I had, the only small snakes shed I saved were off of the water pythons because their sheds were awesome. When I worked at the rescue I used to save the huge female rocks sheds and still have one left that I didnt give away. Her sheds are ridiculous, they are huge. Plus Afrocks have such a cool pattern. I probably have about 50 sheds lying around in my closet, mostly from snakes I no longer have for one reason or another, it keeps their memory around, other than their pictures all over the house. Where I used to live when I had a snake room there were sheds hung up everywhere, added to the atmosphere I guess. Take care, Dan M.
 
Man, a 10' shed... too cool. Now I feel like smallfry. I'm beginning to look at my lil guys as "starter snakes" and sometimes even think about steppin up to bp's, hehe. That'd be slick to have a shed hung near the ceiling laid out along 2 walls!
 
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