Hi! im back, its been a year since i last needed help but my ball python seems to be doing pretty well, other than refusing food, i’ve noticed she refuses food more frequently in the winter than the summer, is there somehow a connection with that? anyway that wasnt my main question but my ball python has her eye caps still stuck on after shedding and they have been stuck for at least a week now, ive been trying to increase her humidity and everything but nothing has really worked. is there any way to get them off without me touching her face? she doesn’t like it when i go near her head and jerks away all the time, should i soak her or something? idk lol im so lost 
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This has worked for me. Soak her in lukewarm water for about 30 minutes. Then take a q tip and GENTLY roll it across the eye. Repeat until the eye cap comes off.
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is there any way without touching her face? she will NOT let me go near it no matter what and i don’t want to hold her down because im sure it’s pretty stressful
You can make her a nice humid hide by cutting a hole in a tupperware container with a lid and filling it full of damp sphagnum moss. The combination of moisture, humidity and brushing against/scooting through the moss can dampen it and it may come off that way!
I’d just keep an eye on the moss to make sure it doesn’t get moldy, you may have to swap it out every few days
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This happens to me occasionally when my male sheds. He sometimes doesn’t like it when I get close to his face, so What I did was get a very damp wash rag, and enclose his head and neck in the palm of my hand, making a very loose fist. When he backs out of it, he rubs himself with the rag. After doing this a few times, the stuck eye cap came off. I wanna say it took about 3-4 times.
even though she hates me touching her face i did follow this,they did come off! she wasn’t very happy though and kept hissing at me 
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