A Fun Project
My corn snake recently shed and I had a 3 ring binder with page protectors. I decided that I'd start a book of his shedding and growth progress.
First, I flattened out the shed so that the head and eyecaps laid flat. Then I proceeded to wind the shed into the page protector as so it would lay decently flat. I couldn't get it perfect, however, you can still see all of the clean shed.
I then labeled the eyecaps and the tail tip, the name and species of the snake that left the shed, and the date it was found. I check my sheds for eye caps and tail tips any way, I just thought it would be fun to preserve them in a book.
This will become more interesting and more challenging as he grows. I will have to lay and wind the sheds into the page protector more carefully each time to try and show the entire length.
And why I am I doing this? Partially to keep records, to show them off for education programs, but mostly for my own amusement. There will probably come a time when his sheds will totally outgrow the 8.5"x11 page protectors, but he's got plenty of time to grow and fill most of the pages in.
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