Various things can trigger a snake's slough cycle to commence. Once in a while they get triggered unnecessarily and the snake sloughs when it doesn't really need to. It's pretty rare, but once in a while I've had snakes slough twice in a row within about 2 weeks without a feed, or within about 10 days with a couple of feeds when they are growing rapidly. I've never had anything quite as extreme as three in two weeks, but I've had fairly close. If the snake is growing very quickly the most likely reason is that it produced a new skin which wasn't quite big enough and immediately went into another slough cycle, and the hormone switch was a bit stuck, or the hormone production was a little bit jammed in the on position, causing the third slough.
I wouldn't be at all concerned, I'd just find it novel and interesting. If it continued for much longer or there were any signs of problems I would be concerned.
This would actually be a very interesting research project for a PhD student or some private medical company. I'm not sure if anyone has identified the hormones responsible for initiating a slough cycle and the various associated mechanisms. It may have practical medical applications for humans, and even if it doesn't it would be fascinating research, and probably a relatively straightforward project (extremely difficult and complex, but in context of what it is, very easy). I'm not even sure if anyone has identified the main hormone which is produced to trigger it!
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I have never even heard of an adult snake shedding twice in less than a month, haven’t even fed him in between
So it’s quite interesting that it does/can happen
My baby when I got her last year shed about once every 1-3months months for first 12months of having
Adult snakes can slough twice within a month, it's not that unusual.
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Think about this.............feeding every 5 days means 3 feeds in 2 weeks and 3 sloughs. Or in simple terms your snake shed every feed. Growth spurt........?????? You are more than entitled to take no notice of what Im saying but I have fed hatchies every 3 days to get them going and they don't outgrow a skin in less than a week.
I've fed snakes on a wide range of schedules (I love to experiment), ranging from less than weekly up to 5 days per week. I've raised many snakes on schedules of feeds every 3 days or so. Generally, at first they'll slough every 4-7 feeds, give or take, but after a few months on this regime, if the feeds are large, they can sometimes slough more frequently, and if they build up fat reserves they can keep putting on size (length, not weight) even without feeding for a short time after the feeding stops. After the high feeding frequency has continued for some time I don't find it unusual for them to have aberrant sloughs, presumably because their slough triggers are getting worked unnaturally heavily. It's a little bit like how injured snakes can have multiple sloughs because of the unusually strong slough trigger, even though the injury is fully healed.