Losing color? Very very strange, and not shedding

[Zynx_Keekeio]

So I got my SHTCTB a week ago yesterday and since I've had her, her color has slowly faded to where she looks like someone dusted her with powder, and she's been this way since i brought her home, she hasn't been as orange as she was when I got her. But still no shed, no loose skin, no loose skin around the arms, nothing not a single sign of shedding anywhere

Is there something that can decrease the colors? I finally got her heating pad to read 91-93 degrees, took be like all week but finally I got it down there, before that it was reading 105 and that was with 2 stacks of papertowels rolled up underneath the substrate above the heating pad.

Could it be she was just to hot?

 

[thekooliest]

She probably is getting ready to shed. They get an almost white cover before they do
You should maintain the temperature at 90-94 though.

 

[acpart]

I find my SHTCT's to be pretty sensitive to temperature, color of substrate and even mood. Usually when they fade they're too cold or the substrate is dark. It may be that she's stressed with the move. Now that you've fixed the temps, give her a little time and see what happens to her color.

Aliza

 

[hondawingsfly]

sounds to me like shes getting ready to shed

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

See I thought she was getting ready to shed as well beacause she had the look of one about to shed and so I waited....and waited.....and waited and still nothing

hmmm strange about the sensitivity

 

[hondawingsfly]

can you take some photos then?

 

[LeapinLizards]

Well, stress can cause a geckos normal shed time to be much longer. I got a couple females almost a year ago, one of them was doing what you described. Not QUITE looking like she was going to shed, but almost like that. No loose skin, etc. About a week and a half later, brighter than can be, so I knew she shed over night.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

Well, stress can cause a geckos normal shed time to be much longer. I got a couple females almost a year ago, one of them was doing what you described. Not QUITE looking like she was going to shed, but almost like that. No loose skin, etc. About a week and a half later, brighter than can be, so I knew she shed over night.

Wow yup
I just got to thinking, what if the guy who had them kept them in a rack system, so this clear glass and being able to see everything is stressing her out even more?


Anyways I was inspecting her today and Ta-DA!!!! I see a little bit of stretched skin just behind her hind legs. It is a slow slow slow slow shed

 

[Mel&Keith]

You might try adding a little extra humidity just in case she's having a hard time shedding. And yes, changes in environment can drastically change the colors of tangerines so you may have a combo of stress and shedding.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

She shed!!! but she is still very dull in color, her white has turned grey, her bright orange has gotten more grey to it, her carroting on her tail did not increase, but she did gain a few super orange spots, one on the side of her neck, the other on her back.

 

[Zynx_Keekeio]

And Zynx Shed too, her purple on her top stripe area is almost completely gone and the yellow is beginning to flood into the white band behind her head, gorgeous little missy

 

[Skeeter]

maybe it is stress but some geckos do take a long time to shed