• Hello!

    Either you have not registered on this site yet, or you are registered but have not logged in. In either case, you will not be able to use the full functionality of this site until you have registered, and then logged in after your registration has been approved.

    Registration is FREE, so please register so you can participate instead of remaining a lurker....

    Please be certain that the location field is correctly filled out when you register. All registrations that appear to be bogus will be rejected. Which means that if your location field does NOT match the actual location of your registration IP address, then your registration will be rejected.

    Sorry about the strictness of this requirement, but it is necessary to block spammers and scammers at the door as much as possible.

Respitory Infection? - please help

BabyMowgli

just one more....
My snake, who happens to be a ball pyhton, (but I don't know who else to ask or trust besides this board :shrugs: ) is wheezing when she breaths. I am affraid that she might have a RI.

She hasn't eaten in about 2 months and her temps have stayed fairly stable. The temp in my room as dropped as I live in MN where is is already in the negative digits, but I added another small heat pad and she has a heat lamp during the day.

I had her out today and she headed for her favorite spot, my neck, and I could her her wheeze when she breathed. i then put her back in her cage and coverd the screen part with blaknet to keep in more heat and I could still hear her wheezing. I don't notice anything different with her. She has lost some weight, but I don't have a scale so I can't be sure. She spends most of her time day or night, on her warm side hide.

any advice is appreciated. she is my favorite baby girl and I want her to be ok. We don't really have a herp vet that I would trust in my small town here.
 
hi there! what is the exact room temp and hot spot temp in her tub/viv. i would up her temps, depending on what they are already, lower humidity, and get her asap to a vet. isolate her from all your other snakes, and dont use any of the things you use for her on the rest until you know for sure. some have a wee wheeze when they are about to shed, but if you night time temps have dropped dramatically i would get vet to look at her. if it is an ri she will need antibiotics.
 
Back
Top