My eldest noticed an anomaly on her snake’s lip and took him into the vet for a look. It turns out it was just a loose scale, not mouth rot or any other number of horrid things, but the vet did suggest keeping his container at 50% humidity and making him a shed box full of damp sphagnum moss.

When I put the shed box in his container, I put a black piece of material around it to make it more inviting. He still didn’t like it and found his way back to his other hole with the wet wash cloth.

At least he now has choices, and I’ll keep replacing the washcloth with freshly damp ones, and misting the container. His eyes are currently cloudy, a sign that he is getting ready to shed. Eventually his eyes will go clear, then he’ll shed within a few days.