Soooo RI, I screwed up.

[XGetSome]

I received a 3100 Gra female that appeared healthy, and I only kept here in quarantine a week, I then house her with my Lesser to see if he'd mate....510Grams.

Well I found 1 mite in the cage (never had mites before so it caught me off guard, I cleaned the cage with Permethrin, and housed them
in my vision cage for a few days, 6 actually(was empty and clean). Well I work graveyard 6pm till 7am, and was working 6 days straight. I placed both snakes back in their original cages.

Well Friday mid Day I noticed the lesser has a little click when breathing and the female had a few bubbles. I upped the temps to 95 on High Side. Hoping thing will be ok, today Both of them are bubbling and have a repiratory infection.

The really bad part was Friday I called both Local Vets here to get Baytril or a visit, neither are herp vets, and they havent a clue about reptiles. I was gunna pay for office Visit, but Im thinkin I gotta go outta town to Lancaster, Los Angeles, Bakersfield or sumthin But I work monday, through thursday 13 hour days, dayshift.

How on Earth do I get Baytril...I know thats what they need, turns out the visiob cage temps were mid to low 70's at night(drafty cold window behind it.....my fault I know), temps were low 80's during daytime. ...... yeah i have 30 ball pythons and this was my first real screw up......wish Baytril was easy to get. I will be makin calls, maybe even takin Monday off......

I love my Ball Pythons.....Sigh.

[XGetSome]

Temps 95 high side 84 low side, Humidity High 40's...anything else I can do?

[XGetSome]

Update...

Seeing that this was a Hot Topic I figure I'll update.

My femle still appears sick, but no bubbles and improving. I removed the water Bowl to drop Humidity, maybe its helping.

My Lesser is showing No signs of RI, Nevertheless i called in to work tonight to take my snakes to a VET. I will keep you all updated.

Other than this ive had many locks this week, so Some things are going good.

[Darkice]

I picked up a boa once and the mites didn't show up for a while. Used prevent a mite on the substrate and never had a reinfestation.

I took the snakes out and sprayed the heck out of the cage. Waited about 30 minutes then reinstalled the snakes. The mites on the snakes died quickly. After about a week i resprayed just in case but never saw mites again.

[blackcrystal22]

Up the humidity temporarily.

Make sure theres not a piece of stuck shed on her nostril, that's what caused my boa to make a popping noise that I was sure was an RI.

[XGetSome]

So the deal is I just got a quote from the vet (not a herp vet....sigh)to see both snakes is 145$ and that doesnt count meds or anything extra. Good thing I have money saved up....I actually skipped the Pomona show wich I really wanted to go to just to get these snakes taken care of.......Off I go for 9:15 Appointment

[starmom]

Good luck and let us know how they are doing and what the vet says.

Remember to practice really strict QT by keeping them in a different room from your other snakes, no sharing of any tools, hand washing, do the healthy snakes first and then the sick ones, etc etc etc.

[stevenkeogh]

Crank your heat up to high 90's even 100 on the hot side and bump up the humidity. DO NOT lower the humidity, that just masks the symptoms and will kill your snake.
Essentially you should be attempting to "cook" the RI out of your snake. Much like mammals gain a fever to fight infection.
Lowering humidity putting the snake in improper conditions... which is what caused your problem.
-Steven

[rabernet]

I'd also like to note that one week does not = QT. A GOOD QT is at least 60 days, 90 would be better.

Good luck with these guys.

[starmom]

Crank your heat up to high 90's even 100 on the hot side and bump up the humidity. DO NOT lower the humidity, that just masks the symptoms and will kill your snake.
Essentially you should be attempting to "cook" the RI out of your snake. Much like mammals gain a fever to fight infection.
Lowering humidity putting the snake in improper conditions... which is what caused your problem.
-Steven

I would not ever keep my ball pythons at 100F; that's too hot in my opinion