How to preserve a good snake shed
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
- In this video Balian and Chad show you how to preserve a shed from your snake when they give you a god shed. This in particular is something really cool to do when you have high color deep pattern snakes. Check this out as they show you how to deal with a shed thats in good condition. Make sure to subscribe, like, and hit the bell for notifications and as always thanks for watching and following along. Feel free to get with us at the info below if theres anything we can help with.
Kernersville Reptile Zoo & Medical Center
821 S Main St Kernersville Nc
336 749 3250
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Saw this guy's leather bracers and immediately trusted him. I will now preserve my baby cornsnakes shedding. Thank you!
Thanks for watching
3 years old and still doing the job. Just cut up a racer and a cornsnake shed. Thanks!
That is awesome glad you are able to save those sheds. Thanks for watching and commenting
Excellent! I collect all sorts of wildlife ephemera and picked up a shed skin this morning, not as good as your examples but good enough to put in my "cabinet of curiosities". The tip about moistening it, in particular, is very helpful. 🙂🙂
Glad this video helped and thanks for watching
Great video! So I am a Custom Framer and a client asked me to mount their shed on velvet in a shadowbox. Having never done it before your video was the only one I found that dealt with sheds and not tanned snake hide. Your information on moistening the skin is going to be really helpful in the process. I’m hoping I can get it all laid out the way he wants. He gave me 3 sheds to practice with plus the good one he wants mounted. Wish me luck!
Thats awesome and we hope that turns out well for you. Thanks for watching and commenting
Glad to know I’m not the only one who can never get a perfect or even decent bp shed! Still working on it for my snake’s sake though but yeah. My sand boa is perfect each time of course. Then there is the blue tongue skink of course lol
LOLOL right
Great video, clear to follow! Thank you!
Thanks for watching and commenting
great video
Thank you and thanks for watching
Hi! Do you laminate them yourselves? Would love a video showing the process of running the shed skin through a laminator.
Hey Smokey thanks for watching and for the question. As of right now we do not have a laminator big enough to do snake skins. So we will use laminating companies that are close to our zoo. Sometimes you can get staples to do it as long as their aint a sissy that works their and to afraid to touch a snake skin.
@@ReptileRangers Thanks for the info!
@@smokeywick7100 anytime happy to help
This is Awesome! I have watched some videos on nail art and one got me really interested when they use snakes shredded skin. Wow, how beautiful this art is. I was wondering if you could send me some to experiment this art. I love snake skin colors and patterns, very interesting to me. Please can I get some from you? I also subscribed to your channel, Awesome and informative. Thanks.
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You are welcome to get with us at 336 749 3250 and thanks for watching and the subscription.
I got a snake a month ago and it shedded thanks for helpinh
Anytime and thanks for watching
Would you mount it on cardstock first or just run the skin through? I just found a beautiful 6 1/2' shed from a Northern Black Racer and I want to preserve it to show to my students.
Typically most people open up the shed before laminating or mounting. Send me a pic of the type of card stock your thinking about putting it on. 336 749 3250
Do you have a method of sanitizing any messy sheds? Would diluting bleach or a gentle soap in water be safe and prevent damage? My first snake had his first shed and I would love to preserve it, but he, uh, made a mess in it, hah.
lolol I know exactly what your talking about and yes it is nasty when they do that. As for sanitizing soap and water very gently is the best option once you have it opened up and the crap out of it. Bleach may be a bit to much and break it down faster than you would like as it is meant to be a cleaning agent that breaks down matter that you are trying to clean from surfaces. Thanks for watching and commenting let us know if we can help further.
Hi Chad & Bailey. Thanks for the awesome video. I have a good shed from my corn snake. Its a year or two old & ive noticed its startin to get flaky... tiny lil bits are falling off. I would like to preserve it. Is this still possible? What should i do?
Hey Maas Lumking thanks for watching and commenting. Ok so their are 2 ways to keep the shed as long as possible. One if the sheds is already starting to get flacky then you can use oils or some form of lubricant to make the shed more pliable again and not so brittle and dry. But as the shed dries out it will be easier to fall apart. The other way is better and more permanent and is to have the shed laminated and that will be a more permanent situation for the shed as long as it stays in the plastic casing. Just make sure you go to a company with plenty of experience because you only get one real shot with the laminating however once done its done now worries from their.
@@ReptileRangers thank you. Id like to laminate. I hant cut it tho. I had stretched it out n cleaned it when it was fresh but left it in that state. At this point: would u recommend i moisten, cut and flatten? Or should i just laminate it the way it is?
@@maaslumking1834 thats going to actually be hard to answer seeing i dont have it directly in my hand to see and feel how dry and brittle it is or is not. You will just have to make the best decision in this case you can based off what you know about your shed. Now to be clear the shed does not have to be soaking wet to cut it and open it up just moist enough that it will become stretchy.
@@ReptileRangers word up, brother. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with me. Greatly appreciated. Will let u know how it turns out. 🐍
There is cold laminating and thermal laminating. Can the skin handle thermal laminating? Do you mount it on paper first?
We do little pieces in our own laminator. Big pieces we do at places that can do long sheets. And it is simply put between 2 pieces of laminate and heated together.
I found one in my laundry room there was no pointy tail in it but it had the double row of scales on the bottom of the tail. I didn't want to do anything with it until l I learned how to move it without damaging it. Is there anyway to tell what kind of snake it is from the shed?
And where would you get it laminated or could you pour resin on it?
Ok so places like staples or something like that. Yes it is possible to sometimes tell what type of snake you had from a shed. Thanks for watching and commenting
What about if you casted it in resin? Would it still be alright? My MBK just shed and I'd like to preserve it in a more creative way, I have a laminator but im not sure if it would be able to handle it 😅
You could definitely cast it, now i would try a crappy piece first just to get the hang of how the easiest way to do it is before you use your good piece though.
@@ReptileRangers ah alright ill give it a shot, but as of right now I just have the one shed, I regret tossing his old ones 😭 but thank you for the advice
@@xandriatyson6834 You are very welcome and good luck
I was going to ask for some yesterday but didn't want to bug your wife. Bailey got my feeders
We always have some available
Hello Gents,
Could you please lend me another pro tip? Ive got my skin all flattened and dried out. The problem is - its stuck to the floor! How do i unstick it without tearing it all up?
just moisten it down a touch to loosen it from being stuck to the floor
@@ReptileRangers will do. Thanks again!
UPDATE: DONT PUSH TOO HARD OR ATTEMPT TO MAKE IT TOO FLAT. WHEN IT DRIES, YOULL NEVER GET IT OFF THE FLOOR - THIS SHIT IS LIKE WALLPAPER, ITLL NEED TO BE SCRAPED OFF. If you want it super flat, put it on paper - it'll separate from the paper once the paper is totally dry.
@@maaslumking1834 Yes if its flatened to much or to hard it dries to a surface it will become very hard. It is Better to leave it moist slightly or somewhat loosely laid down so it does not get to hardened to a surface so its easy to move.
@maaslumking1834 you could lay it on parchment paper for the next one it's made for baking cookies and stuff doesn't stick.
Hello!
I have a fresh shed and ive cut it from the cloacal to the mouth. Question is...
What to do with the tail? Should i also cut that, or is it best to leave this end as is?
Ok so with the tail you can either cut it or turn it inside out. Most of the time we turn the tails inside out
@@ReptileRangers but its already inside out. When i cut the skin down the middle, it opens up to be right side out. Should i do the same with the tail or just leave it as is? I feel that pulling it through itself would leave it sitting in a strange way once its all done. Or am i wrong?
@@maaslumking1834 Correct that would be the part of turning back the other direction or inside out from the way it is now.
@@ReptileRangers so you guys keep the tails pointing the wrong way? Or do you fold it over to make it point towards the back again?
@@maaslumking1834 yes you can pull it back out of itself to as fine a point as you choose to make it. In the case of rattlesnakes their will be an obvious opening from the rattles with every other snake it will have a point to the tip of the tail depending its if fully intact.
What elese does one gave to do
Oil it
??
You can use oil pending how your going to try and preserve it.
Do you need to clean or disinfect the skin?
No if you don't want to. If you do though you will need to be careful how you clean and or disinfect as the shed is very thin and to much of anything will destroy it.
If you going to laminate it then cleaning and disinfecting want matter as it will be incased in the plastic anyhow.
Thanks for watching and commenting
@@ReptileRangers Thank you. I found a beautiful huge one in my garage, and I didn't know if I should handle it or not.
I found an snake shed in the backyard , put in the plastic. What is the use of snake shed for ? Thanks
literally just for looks. People hang them up or display them. Thanks for watching
@@ReptileRangers 😂 pretty cool. Thought something else. I always fear there is snake in the attic.
@@erwanikdlex4104 It is possible but not likely, once the snake sheds they are on their way somewhere else. Usually to find food as they generally want eat for the 10-14 days their in shed cycle.
@@ReptileRangers thank you for the info ,relax me . I hope it’s somewhere else not in our yard,
@@erwanikdlex4104 They have a pretty good size territory in a standard neighborhood it would be several houses and properties wide
Laminate it with what?
Whatever you want to laminate it with ar take it to staples or somewhere that does laminate as mentioned in the video.
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