Bitis nasicornis

Hi Guys how are you?
I have a question. I got a B. Nasicornis from bad keeping. First thing is at the first few days she looked like a triangle because she was underfed. She is eating very well so she looks better. The main problem is that she has old skin on her body and even bathing her doesn´t help a lot. What should i do? Picking the skin off her is very difficult because the skin is totally stucked.
I fixed her and tried it already but i´m sure you can imagine to fix a 120cm big Nasicornis isn´t that easy for one person.
Do you have any ideas what else i should try to help her getting off her old skin?
I post you a picture that you can see what i mean. The brown parts of the skin is old skin.

Bitis nasicornis 535stw

Regards Mike

Hi Mike,

when it feeds well, let it alone! Because, some nasicornis from WC are looking very dirty and dry. The main problem will not be that it was ,,underfed´´
dehydration will be much more risky for them. Feed it some times, and have a special look for enought water. Then when the time for the next shed is come, keep it a little bit more moist
but not wet! When you have luck and you will be there when it shed, spray it, maby in a Box. Normaly this works very fine. Don´t remove now the old skin, to much stress in my opinion!
Kep cool and wait...

regards,

Peter

Hi Peter thanks for your answer. It´s a CB no WC.
The animal is from a confiscation. This Nasicornis lived in a box for years. The person who kept her before told that he got her as a baby CB from France.
This animal looks terrible for a CB!!!!!!

OK MIke,

but the care will be the same like for an WC animal.

Ok Peter thanks.
Let´s hope the best for it!

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