Odd night behavior in BP? Help please!!

She's a champion eater! Takes down an adult rat no problem, usually within seconds after I've dropped it in her tank. So no problems there, thankfully.

Thanks everyone for your feedback! I always welcome more :) I love my snake very much so I want to make sure she's tip-top shape. Feel free to private message me if you want to come off the thread. I'd love to make some new snakey-loving friends! Thanks again -Rae

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Originally Posted by RaeDee

I have checked her for mites and the reptile store I bought her from did a preventative treatment for mites before I even brought her home

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I would be quite concerned about poisoning. Mite treatments are toxic and cause neurological issues very similar to what you have in your video. I would suggest a 20 min soak daily and keep everything on point. Hope that I am wrong.

Good suggestions all round. I have to go get her a rat tomorrow from the same reptile store I bought her from and those guys are extremely knowledgeable herpetologists, so I think I'll show them that video as well, just to see what they think. I took her out this afternoon and handled her for a while and she was acting totally normal and content. She even took a little snooze around my neck. So I'll keep her monitored closely (as I always do lol) and see what the guys at the store have to say tomorrow.

Best of luck, i do hope my fears are wrong! I have dealt with lots of rescues over the years and I have seen too many pyrethroid poisoning cases, it looks like IBD but is not. Crazy spasms and uncontrolled movements. I hope your little one recovers!

So I spoke to my local herp-y experts at the reptile store I bought Matilda from, showed them the video and they informed me that one of Matilda's parents was indeed........a Spinner. So she apparently carries the allele for the wobble. They said it's nothing to worry about and to just keep up my mad excellent husbandry skillz lol. Good call to those to saw the spider/spinner wobble! So relieved that it's not something more serious!! Thanks to all for your input!! :gj:

That's not how the spider wobble works, only spiders and spider combos would carry the wobble. Any non-spider offspring would not carry the wobble.

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Originally Posted by RaeDee

I have checked her for mites and the reptile store I bought her from did a preventative treatment for mites before I even brought her home, so she's clear on the mites. I have two reptile carpets that I switch out weekly or whenever she soils it and I simply wash the dirty one by hand with a little dawn soap and hot water. I rinse it really thoroughly too. Like rinsed to the point where I would feel comfortable eating off it! Haha And like I said, she's done this since the first night I had her. I'll try to post a pic as soon as I figure out how haha :) I'm new on here! Still figuring everything out!

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Hi RaeDee, welcome to the forum. You say the store where you purchased her from treated her for mites. Kitedemon was trying to ascertain whether the bp has been exposed to any pyerethins so its important to find out what the reptile store used to preventatively treat for mites. That may prove crucial. Check with them asap. :gj:

My reply above had a typo- sorry. One of her parents was a SPIDER** not spinner. Sorry for the confusion. And I did check with them while I was there about the mite spray. They use it on all their snakes and not a single one has developed poisoning from it. They assured me that it was perfectly safe.

I have a spider and he wobbles quite a bit but I did read an article about spider behavior and that the wobble can be in other morphs, it's rare but it can happen. Hope this helps. The breeder I got my boy from said it is nothing to be concerned about.