Breathing

How often do ball pythons breath in and out? Mine seems to breath out every like every 10 seconds, is this normal? He moves a little bit every time he breathes back in 2....its weird.

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Originally Posted by hypnotixdmp

How often do ball pythons breath in and out? Mine seems to breath out every like every 10 seconds, is this normal? He moves a little bit every time he breathes back in 2....its weird.

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How old is he?

Babies breathe faster and they all breathe faster when stressed or active.

Sometimes, it seems like they're not breathing at all.

[and yes, I've driven myself crazy "watching them breathe" and worrying]

:oops:

Respiratory rate will differ based on many things - it's a bit of a loaded question.

My resting heart rate is 53 b/m, but sometimes its as high as 170, soooo.... :confusd:

so is it normal for him to only breath in and out every 10 seconds unlike u and I every 2-3 seconds?

I like to watch them once they know its time to eat and smell the food. It seems like my younger ones get excited and start breathing really fast but the older ones breath really slowly, stop completely, and tense up right before they strike. :gj:

As ricky said my breathing rate varies alot too depending on what im doing.

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Originally Posted by hypnotixdmp

so is it normal for him to only breath in and out every 10 seconds unlike u and I every 2-3 seconds?

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Yes. thats fine haha.

Ball pythons have 2 lungs but one is very small and underdeveloped. The other one is long and goes a good length of their body. So it takes a bit longer for that one big long lung to fill all the way up, let all the oxygen be taken out by blood, and exhaled again. Im not sure if all snakes have lungs like that so thats why i just said BP's. Also thats just my theory which i think is probably pretty accurate but im not a doctor lol.

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Originally Posted by rickyRRE

Respiratory rate will differ based on many things - it's a bit of a loaded question.

My resting heart rate is 53 b/m, but sometimes its as high as 170, soooo.... :confusd:

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PLEASE tell me your RESTING heart rate never gets that high?

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Originally Posted by patientz3ro

PLEASE tell me your RESTING heart rate never gets that high?

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He prolly means when hes exercising or sees a pic of Kate Upton or something lol

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Originally Posted by patientz3ro

PLEASE tell me your RESTING heart rate never gets that high?

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lol, sorry. No, that's when I'm exercising! oops