Sneezies!

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Hayden's playing with my hair and ears right now and I keep hearing this little noise coming from him. It's like a mini sneeze and sometimes a little sniff. It's sort of cute. Combined with the random mouth opening, I'm sort of suspicious that it may be an RI. Or else he's just being adorable. Aw.

[lisa77]

is his mouth & nostrils clear of any residue ? Some snake just make a little hiss when your handling them or when they are about to shed..but u never can be too careful..

[Spaniard]

Are your temps and humidity at normal levels?

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Are your temps and humidity at normal levels?

Yessir.

[Spaniard]

It might just be his normal breathing that you can never really hear because he's never that close to your ear. Someone correct me if I'm wrong in that assumption. If temps and humidity are good then RI chances are low. Mouth opening isn't bad when they're exploring but if it becomes more frequent than random i would start to worry.

[elevatethis]

The open mouth this usually happens when there is such a buildup of fluid that they can't breathe normally, so if the RI got to that point, you would have already heard wheezing.

Sometimes I hear a slight hiss or wheeze come from a snake during handling. Its nothing to worry about, but thats great that you are developing a sense of what to look for in his overall health. Some people are just completely oblivious to otherwise obvious external cues to overall health. One lady with a snake came into the pet store asking why her snake had been "shedding" for 6 months. It had probably 3 retained eyecaps and wrinkly, dry, retained shed skin on about 50% of its body. Some people, I swear!