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Help, he's looked like this for three days, patches stuck everywhere. I mist his cage about 3 times a day due to dry Michigan weather. His humidity is always at 50-80% so he is not dehydrated. He has been eating and going to the bathroom normal. I tried the bath "sauna" method and hasn't seemed to help. How much longer until I need to start worrying about this bad shed.
Sauna should be working, sometimes you will need to do it a few times before it can come off. What you need to do is take about a cup of lukewarm (not cold but not hot) water, a big plastic tub with a lid, and a few paper towels. Other things are q-tips, and tweezers. Put paper towels in the bottom of the container and fill it with the lukewarm water (not all of it, just enough to where it can cover his vent or barely tough his belly, don't have the gecko in the tub when you pour the water in, and if you have him in the tub and you need more water do not pour it on him but pour it down the side) find your mister bottle and fill it with a little of the lukewarm water, and spray his tub many times so that there is water all on the walls and on the gecko. Take the lid and put it over the tub, and take him into a quiet, moderately dark room to calm him down since this may be stressful to him. Put him on a surface where he will not tip over, such as a table or extra chair, and set a timer on your phone or another timekeeping device for 15-20 minutes (tip, if you're using a phone, make sure you change your ringer to something soft or light as a loud beeping noise might scare him XD ) and step away from him and leave him. The tub should start to fog a little, and if he's okay he may start to lick droplets off the cage. Once your 15-20 minutes is up, remove the lid and very gently lift the gecko out and place him on a surface or paper towel. Take the q-tip and lightly wet it some, and position it where his skin is and roll in the direction towards you. If this doesnt work, use the dry side of the q-tip to try with that. If you don't have a lead on the skin to roll off, VERY gently take the tweezers and pull very little on his skin to detach some, then roll off of that. If you are not careful, you can pinch the gecko, either hurting him or stressing him. If you can get the skin off there, you can also use the tweezers to get anything stuck under his little nails, and make sure to check his toes as stuck shed if left unattended can cause him to lose toes, think of it like a small child growing up with the same pair of socks, uncomfortable right? If this doesnt work then repeat the process, try not to go overboard with this as it may stress, or could be harmful to respiratory. Also, don't panic
everyone has these problems with their geckos, we're all here to help you and there are many informative people here ready to try anything to help your case, just stay calm and keep us updated if this doesnt work and we can move from there
also I would like to say, very pretty gecko, you are very lucky
