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I think R.I., but how to tell for sure

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Cornylover2

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I have a 2 year old female cornsnake who's clutch is due to hatch at any time. I took her out of her cage yesterday and the first thing she did was "sneeze". I've done the search thing to look for assistance, but most had posted that there was mucous coming from the nose. This isn't the case with mine. I held her for about half an hour and I only heard it that one time. Thought maybe it was a fluke. I took her out again yesterday so we could go on our evening walk and I heard the "sneeze" maybe 3 times in an hour time frame.

Temps on the warm side is 82, cold side is 75. During the winter time, I taped up the top of their glass cage with foil to try and keep heat and humidity up which worked great, but I've noticed since it's been so warm here, humidy has been in the 80's in the cage. I've taken all the foil and duct tape off and it went down to 72, but hasn't gotten any lower in the last 2 days. She is out cruising every night, still very active, very responsive eating.

So my three questions:

1) Do you think it's R.I.? Or any other possible infection?
2) How would you suggest lowering the humidy in a glass cage?
3) I've seen posts on here for a website for local reptile vets. Does anyone have this?

Thank you for your help!
 
it does sound like R.I....

Q-1 is there mucus coming from the nose(crust or watery) and is there a lot of water in the mouth.

Q-2 what top have you got on the cage

Q3 no sorry

and put the temp up in the cage.
 
If there are no other symptoms besides sneezing, I would keep an eye on her but not worry too much. I have one snake who sneezes a lot when he's going into shed sometimes. As soon as he sheds, it stops. He doesn't do with every shed, but he does it with some regularity. It worried me the first time he did it, but I did some searching on here and found that other snakes sometimes whistle or "wheeze" when they're in shed, and he had no other symptoms so I just waited and sure enough, it stopped when he shed. Is that a possibility here?
 
Is the humidy being so high what causes RI? There is no mucous, nothing around the nose or mouth, her mouth is not hanging open at all. I handle her often and this is the first I've ever heard her do it and yes, there could be a possible shed. Last time she shed was her post lay shed which was 2 months ago. She's still shedding every 3 or 4 months. I'm not sure how to describe the top of the cage - standard you get when you have a glass tank, very open, made of mesh possibly? I will definately turn the heat up, but any ideas on how to lower humidity?
 
I've wondered about that sound before too. How likely is it that it's just a short hiss because the snake is alarmed at being picked up? Holden does that sometimes, but only when I first pick him up. And he's one snake that is definately not sick..
 
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