oh okay. If i remember correctly, the first time Alfred shed some of the retained skin on his right hind leg, the scales seemed to have come off. The best way i could explain it is that instead of shedding the shape of the scales he was literally shedding off the scales and what was under it seemed to be skin with little to no scales so it freaked me out and i would still bathe him but i wouldn't mess with it so much. And we tried addressing that but the vet just told us to expose him to sunlight.