Hi,

will try to keep this short! I have a collection of 12 Ball pythons and a couple of them got an RI from a snake I brought in (I know my fault). the RI has no spread to a couple other snakes and a total of 4 of my snakes are now sick.

i was recommended to avoid fogging and treat it by cleaning the mouth out with a tissue daily and removing all saliva and mucus, which I have been doing. One of them got cured after a week! No more signs of RI and all good.

the other 3 have been continuously showing signs of the RI. I don’t know what to do anymore it’s been 4 months that my male Desert ghost (1600grams) hasn’t eaten and the other one is a hatchling (170grams) and he now hasn’t eaten for 1 month.

the hatchling seemed to have the worst infection of the 3 and I have used a syringe to aspirate his nasal passage and remove mucus on several occasions. This technique doesn’t seem to be working, has anyone else tried this method with RIs or can you recommend some other home remedies or médecines?

PS: ambient temp 26c, hot spot 30-31c, ambient humidity 60%