Help please?

[lX V1P3R Xl]

I just fed my BP and she has a few small woodchips on the roof of the front of her mouth. She has been yawning and swaying wildly for about 15-20 minutes now. Am I supposed to lend a helping hand and somehow get her to open her mouth and get it out? She is very headshy and I don't know if thats what I should do or not. I also don't want her to regurge the rat either. What should I do?

[txcoker]

I used a q tip a few weeks ago when one of mine did that.

[dr del]

Hi,

I've used a water jet from a spray can but she reacted as though I was the devil incarnate.


dr del

[Kaorte]

If she can't get it out on her own then I would try giving her some help. She will probably fight it a little. A q tip or some tweezers should work. You can use to q tip to keep the mouth open while you remove the wood chips.

[lX V1P3R Xl]

After about 30-45minutes she ended up getting it out. I gave it a little try and she struggled to much so I let her go, and decided to do some research on how to open their mouths correctly. By the time I was ready, she had gotten it free...FINALLY!

I had never seen her thrash around like she was, it got me pretty worried lol.

[martin82531]

Would this be benefit of feeding outside the enclosure, not having to worry about substrate getting digested/logged?

[Mike41793]

Would this be benefit of feeding outside the enclosure, not having to worry about substrate getting digested/logged?

99.9% of the time they get it out. And they digest it just fine.

[Quantum Constrictors]

Would this be benefit of feeding outside the enclosure, not having to worry about substrate getting digested/logged?

Nope I would never feed out side of the enclosure. First time this happened to one of my snakes a few days later I switched to paper towel bedding and have never looked back.

[lX V1P3R Xl]

Yeah, but I've been trying to avoid that simply for looks. :/

[ewaldrep]

I just switched from newspaper to aspen because of my UTH, I can only get it down to 93-94 on the dimmer switch I have it on and the aspen at least buffers the heat somewhat. I hope this doesn't happen to me before I can switch to Boaphile enclosures.