Oh NO!!

[33takkun33]

Ok i have a serious problem. My baby has a little bit of a respitory infection. I was, i don't want to say bad, but yeah it wasn't good. so i raised the temp and brought the humidity down a little. My temps are, 94 and 84 constantly, and since he is shedding i took the humidity down to 50 (it was at 60 since he is shedding) Now i seldomly her any "pops" and he isn't holding his mouth open anymore at all. Should i still go and see a vet? And jw is this contageous?

[jotay]

Raising the temps only mask's the problem for a spell. It doesn't make it go away. You need to take it to the vet as soon as you can.

[cassandra]

Regardless of what you may report here, the only way you can be sure is to take your snake to a good herp vet for a check up.

Raising the temps has been recorded as helping, but to be sure, if it was me, I'd take my snake to the vet. =)

(oh and in fact, I did when I thought my Suri had RI..)

[rabernet]

A veterinary visit so that he can do a culture and prescribe the right antibiotics is in order. As already mentioned, raising temps and humidity only alleviates the symptoms, but does not "cure" your snake of a RI.