Wobble?

[zeus is a girl]

Can regular ball pythons wobble? My snake has been turning weird which i found out online is wobbling and is common in spider breeds? But my python is not a spider breed and has this weird movement.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVQmiywlaJk
looks just like that. He has no RI and whenever I turn her upside down she can right herself which rules out IBD? Ill post a video up tonight

Im just a little worried

[AK907]

Wobble can occur in any morph of ball python, not just the spider gene. I wouldn't worry too much just yet. Your ball is probably just a little stressed. I'll wait til you get up your video before going further.

[zeus is a girl]

There's a quick video where I think it's noticeable? She only does it in my hands. When she's moving freely she is tilted to the right side. I still don't believe it can be IBD because she can right herself, no RI, no mites, and its been more than a week. I talked to a vet and he said it could be parrot fever?

[zeus is a girl]

anything I need to worry about?

[Inarikins]

It might be because of stress or something that happened while in the egg still, but I'm kind of wondering about your husbandry...? It doesn't look like you have two hides in your video (assuming the tank is the snake's enclosure). Improper husbandry might be the problem. You're going to want a digital thermometer and I'm betting you don't have a thermostat or high enough humidity or ambient temps with just that open screen top.

We can't rule out anything until we know your husbandry's correct. If that's right, then we can move on to figuring out what might be the problem. You'd be surprised what correct temps and humidity can do for a snake's strange behavior.

Have you checked out the caresheet yet? http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...s%29-Caresheet

[zeus is a girl]

Sorry, I'll take a better picture of the husbandry and add it tonight once I get home. But there is a log hide on the side thats not showing and the rock hide that you can see. The humidity stays at a constant 50%. Temperature range is 88-90 on the warm side and 75-78 on the cool side. I have a UTH on the side which I know isn't proper, but he seems to be eating and going normally.

[Inarikins]

UTH is fine. How are you measuring your temps? How are you keeping humidity in in that tank? Your ambient temps are a little low, but if you're using the stick-on gauges like I think you're using, that might not be accurate at all.

[WingedWolfPsion]

Yes, stick-on gauges are worse than guessing, they can be off by as much as 30F in some tests.

The snake looks to me like it has neurological symptoms, but I am not a vet. There are a variety of possible causes, ranging from an illness (much less likely if the snake is feeding normally), to toxin exposure, overheating or cold shock syndrome, a congenital defect, etc.

Has the snake always had this issue, since you first acquired it?

The vet's suggestion is interesting, do any of your birds have psittacosis, or did he just suggest it because you have birds?

[zeus is a girl]

I'm using the digital thermometers you get from basic pet stores. The probes are at the bottom one on the warm side and one on the cool side. The humidity manages to always stay 40-60% in my house so I don't do anything to change it.

It didn't do this when I bought it. Also feeding time is tonight but so far up until now, it's been eating without a problem, it sometimes misses its strike and sometimes doesn't but takes the mouse, constricts and eats it.


He said he read some articles about snakes getting parrot fever and mentioned that, then I notified him I had birds.