Anyone had a hatchling do this?

Checked on my babies tonight, and second baby is coming out of its egg. But noticed that the first baby to come out this morning was sticking the tip of its tongue out and just leaving it there. It would move and touch the paper towels and the egg it was sitting on. But the tongue stayed sticking out, at first I thought it was a piece of goo from one of the eggs, but I picked it up and looked and its wasn't. Anyone else had a baby do that? Kinda worries me, but I worry about everything. Any thoughts would be great, I didn't notice it doing that any of the other times I checked in on it, so wanted to ask people with more experience. You can see it in the pic, it was just the tip.

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Thanks

At first I thought egg tooth but it's much too large in my experience. No idea.

Its the tongue. It put it on the wet paper towel and it went into the fork. Just is weird. Hoping someone has experience with it and everything is fine, lol.

if they flicker their tongue properly, BPs have a directional sense of smell, they can smell if a scent comes from the left or the right, humans do not have that skill.

but it requires the usual tongue flickering snakes do. if the tongue does not split but is glued together, the ends not seperating, thats already a bad sign.

thats all i know, i hand over to the experts.

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Originally Posted by Pythonfriend

if they flicker their tongue properly, BPs have a directional sense of smell, they can smell if a scent comes from the left or the right, humans do not have that skill.

but it requires the usual tongue flickering snakes do. if the tongue does not split but is glued together, the ends not seperating, thats already a bad sign.

thats all i know, i hand over to the experts.

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It was flickering just fine earlier today. So it just did this tonight. Probably nothing, but an overly worried mother here, lol.

Ive had hatchlings do that before. The tongue just hung there, and "quivered". But within 24 hours it was normal. I think its just something that happens sometimes with newborns.

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It's just fine sometimes their tongues seem like they get stuck out but it will pull it back it when it's ready to

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Originally Posted by Lana's_mom

It was flickering just fine earlier today. So it just did this tonight. Probably nothing, but an overly worried mother here, lol.

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I wouldn't worry. Once he's out rinse him off. It's probably nothing.

I've never hatched BP's so I can't offer any advice on that, but I hope all is okay which some other people have said it's happened before and the issue was corrected, so hopefully that works itself out.

A close friend of mine hatched out a little pied male who did that. I went over to take a look at him because she was concerned. The issue corrected itself after a day or two. He was fine!

I'm sure the baby will start acting normally in 24-48 hours

I've had one do this right about after getting out of his egg .. he had the tongues sticking out of his mouth for no reason :D was not flickering it at all .. it was like that for about an hour, then he put it back in it's mouth .. he shed, fed normally after and I haven't seen it occur again :D - in other words a completely healthy snake

Thanks everyone, he is still sticking it out this morning, but tries to flick it. I cleaned the tub and changed the paper towels to see if that helps. It was really gooey in there.

if it flickered before, i guess it will be fine.

maybe hatchlings just need to figure out what it is good for :)

it takes puppies quite a while to open their eyes, and even longer to figure out that their sense of smell works best when they put their nose close to the ground and repeatedly inhale and exhale :D maybe its similar with BPs and tongue flickering, eventually they figure it out and do the tongue flickering whenever they want to smell something.

I know this doesn't help, but at least it's adorable... :)

We haven't had a BP baby do this yet, but we have had a boa with a tongue issue like this. She'd flick it, and then it'd stick half way out of her mouth. However, like 2 days later, she was flicking it normally. Just give it a few days and it might correct itself. Good luck with the babies!

I have not had a hatchling do this but I have seen a couple of my adults do this while they were drinking water. he looks healthy though i wouldn't worry to much about it.