Here's some cool footage of a leopard gecko that's just beginning to shed.
Look at that!
*laughing* Look how baggy his skin is. It's all gonna come off today, I bet.
Yeah. He's already got some rips in it.
Yeah.
Yeah, they eat their own skin when they shed so we won't see it after she's done.
Okay, so this is kinda cool.
This is like several hours later, and she's actually
shedding during the daytime.
Usually they do it at night, but she's hanging out in her little shed box.
That kinda helps loosen it. Hey, sweetheart.
Oh, do you have all the sh--
Oh my goodness, look how crinkly you are! Look at that!
She's so crinkly. So it looks like she's... *laughs*
Oh my goodness!
I think this is her face back here.
All right, so I'm gonna show you something that you usually don't get to see.
This is her face. This is the top of her head in shed form.
Usually they eat this, but I was able to snag it before she could, but I'll put in there so
she can eat it of course.
Yeah, you can see the little eye holes there, and then you can see the
little snoot where her nostrils are right there, so, kinda like a little mask.
Yeah, that's you. That's you.
Yeah, she's gonna be restless all day trying to get that off. See? She's got some dragging around.
Oh yeah, it's really flaky.
And this... Oh man! This feels really weird and bumpy, the top of the shed does.
That's so weird. So, we'll go ahead and give this to her so she can eat it.
Say, I don't know if she'll eat it or not. Sometimes they pull it off and eat it at
the same time. She's kinda licking her lips. She's like "Yeah, that's my shed."
You can eat that.
No, we're not gonna eat that part.
But we're gonna rub up against the different surfaces to help get it off though.
Yeah, they usually... they can do it themselves. They usually don't need help,
so if you see your leopard gecko in shed, don't worry. They can usually get it all
off themselves. Now if they have like stuck shed on their toes, then you can give them
a soak and see if that helps, and sometimes you can just slide it off their toes, but...
Yeah.
But that's only if they've got the rest off and they're not working on it anymore.
She's gonna go snuggle in there.
Oh my goodness, look at all that skin! It's all loose. You just gotta rip it off.
The temptation is real to help her, but no, I will let her do it herself. That's a lot of skin, sweetie.
Look at you! Yeah, look at that brand new gecko under there!
Oh, she found her cave. She's gonna go hide in there for a while.
That'll also help her get that skin off if she can kinda rub her back along the top of the cage.
Cave, I mean.
Oh, and her roommate is gonna steal her spot.
You gonna... you gonna go in there?
There she is... Hi! I see you.
Boo!
I shined a light in there just to see.
I think she's trying to get... use the inside to get that off.
It's so cool how we can see each little bumpy scale on that skin.
Make sure your gettin' those little feet!
Well, there we go. Now we're gonna eat it. There.
Oh, it's like taking off a glove!
She's gonna... that's how they rip it off themself.
You gonna get that one now too?
You didn't get it, I don't think! You still got some hanging off your hands.
Gotta get it!
She's like "I'm just gonna rub up against..." She's rubbing up against the wall.
*sigh* Yeah, get it! Get that annoying little glove!
Yeah!
That's annoying, isn't it?
You almost got it all off. Just a little bit more!
Oh! Oh, we're getting our booty now. Oh. Oh dear.
Almost look like a dog doing that.
Silly.
No, you don't wanna go in there. You want to try to get it off. There you go.
Yeah, it's pretty annoying isn't it?
Yeah.
There we go.
Why don't you get that hand?
Oh, we're gonna get... we're gonna work on that one again? Okay.
Um, I think you got one foot off though.
I think you freed that foot, so you got one foot free.
Gotta free the rest.
Why don't you go in your humid hide?
It'll probably help. You can rub up against your friend in there.
Go on. Go in your humid hide.
Well, walking through the water helps too.
I see what you're gonna do. You're gonna squeeze around in there maybe.
Okay, there you go. Go in there. There you go!
There you go. You'll probably be able to get it off that way.
All right, so we'll see if she can get all that skin off in there. Probably.
There she goes!
*laughs*
(laughing) There's another one in there.
All right, well, she's in there now so, hopefully after she's done, she'll be a brand new lizard.
Here's her little glove of one of her hands.
She didn't eat it actually. I'm surprised. Usually they eat it all.
That is a hand and a leg. It's...well, not a leg. It's her arm that came off the front part of her body.
So yeah, that is what an... a leopard gecko arm looks like and its foot.
All right, this is the next day. This is the aftermath. Looks like she ate everything except...
the face, I think, and her glove. So let's see... Here she is!...She's in her humid hide.
She ate all the rest of her skin, and there she is!
That is a brand new gecko! No. *chuckles*
Look at that bright tail!
So she got all done last night while we were gone, and we did have to help her out
with a few of her toes. We had to soak her and slide some skin off her toes,
but she's good now, and, yeah, she's a whole new gecko.
So we'll let her go rest after her big ordeal.
Say, "night night," sweetie!