Jeanna,
I keep small margarine tub-like containers in my P. pictus tanks. In
these I have a soil/moss mixture that is kept moist with one or two
access holes cut into them. The mixture is 0.5 - 0.75 inches deep, with
a thicker section of material built up opposite the access hole(s). I
find that the pictus will go to these as needed and have good sheds, be
they a few months old or my breeding pair. some will spend most of the
time on these, while others use them occasionally.
Yuri
> Jeanna Morgan-Kienzle wrote:
>
> I took my littlest leo out last night to see how he was and noticed
> that he had not gotten all of the shed off of his toes.
>
> 4 or 5 of his back toes where being "strangled by the unshed skin. I
> soked them in water to soften them up. It all came off after about 30
> minutes of poking at the little guy. Once I got the skin off, his
> poor little toes were still pink underneath, I could see all the blood
> rushing back to the areas. One of his toes did loose a nail though
> and looks a little stubby.
>
> I put him in a separate container with paper towels and a hide box
> with more moist paper towels. Do I need to do anything else? Besides
> making sure that that doesn't happen again.
>
> -Jeanna (bad lizard mom)
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