Stuck shed in nostrils? Clicking snake

Hi everyone, this is my first post here so please bare with me. My ball python has been making a clicking noise when she breathes, and has been yawning frequently. There are no signs of mucus anywhere in her mouth (pic of her yawning here) or on the sides of her tank so I don't think its an RI. There's no mucus bubbles in her nose either but her nostrils look crusty, leading me to think that it's stuck shed in her nose? When I got her from the pet shop she had stuck shed all over and the conditions they had her in at the pet shop weren't great, so that's also why I'm thinking maybe she has scales stuck in her nostrils?? I took her to a vet and the vet said she was perfectly fine and healthy, but it's obvious that she is still having some trouble breathing (clicking, open mouth breathing, yawning frequently). I don't know what to do. I wasn't sure how to add a picture so I linked one here. Please help!

Raise her humidity, & give her a humid hide. Watch for any bits of stuck shed in her nostrils that you can help her with by pulling loose carefully with tweezers if you can. Her next shed should help. You might even try now giving her a closely-supervised shallow soak in luke-warm water for about 20 minutes, it might help.

But I'm sorry, you'll have to streak by yourself: RE "...please bare with me..." :rofl: (hint: bear)

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Originally Posted by Bogertophis

Raise her humidity, & give her a humid hide. Watch for any bits of stuck shed in her nostrils that you can help her with by pulling loose carefully with tweezers if you can. Her next shed should help. You might even try now giving her a closely-supervised shallow soak in luke-warm water for about 20 minutes, it might help.

But I'm sorry, you'll have to streak by yourself: RE "...please bare with me..." :rofl: (hint: bear)

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Can't recommend the humid hide enough. You can make your own or purchase a neat one from Pangea's website. My first shed was awful and I basically had to luke-warm soak, and do the towel trick for the entire shed. Then I took Bogertophis' advice, cut feeding while in blue and got a humid hide, and am now through our third complete shed. Having a humid hide took away probably 80% of the stress I had over my enclosure while I wait for my T10 to get here.

Thank you!!

I make my own "humid hides" by cutting a hole (doorway) into the top of a large plastic food container, one that's big enough to hold a fair amount of either soaked* sphagnum moss or soaked (& drained*) orchid bark PLUS the snake. Snakes LOVE these things for the privacy & super-humidity & you want them partly warmed by whatever heat source you're using (I use both UTH & overhead-); you'll need to re-humidify the contents periodically, of course. I prefer to use rectangular containers but others work too, the main thing is having enough room & depth.

Okay thank you! I just ordered some sphagnum moss that should be here by tomorrow, so I'll try that. :sweeet: