Important Question

[elevatethis]

Alright yall heres the story:

My AC went out last week. My room, upstairs of course, its crazy hot. This is where the reptiles stay. Without the heat lamp on, my BP's cage has been 85 degrees throughout. Needless to say, I've left it off because of this. I don't think that this would be a problem, because the shop that I work at keeps the reptile room at about 86-90 degrees during the day and at night it probably drops to about 78-80 at night with the heater off.

I've noticed that my BP has been VERY active at night and I see her 'yawning' a lot. Is it possible that her metabolism has been sped up by the consistant temperatures thus making her more active? I fed her a Rat on saturday that left a pretty big lump, now she's back to being skinny again. She has also passed about 3 urates this week alone.

A better question would be, is this: Does a BP that is sick from being too warm generally move around a lot searching for a cooler place or is mine just livin it up in the humid tropical environment that it is in my room w/o any AC?

[Tigergenesis]

When they do warm up they do get a bit more active...but you're right that he could be looking for a way to cool down (water dish, cool hide, etc).

[BallPythonBabe448]

"yawnig"? I have never heard of a snake yawning. Yea my snake moves around alot and when she is out of her hid she is on top of the water dish, or moving around but one day I noticed he was staying on the cool side and I reaalized I had the light and heat pad on when it only should of been the light. so he was evedently to hot...but thats all fixed now.

[invadertoast]

"yawnig"? I have never heard of a snake yawning.

The pic in my avatar is of my snake yawning

[Smulkin]

Catch mine gaping them jaws all the time. I know they are not the most inclined but is the water dish big enough he can get in it if he really needs to? Are you still running the heat pads and is it just the cool side temps which have elevated appreciably?

[Marla]

"yawnig"? I have never heard of a snake yawning.

"Yawning" in the case of snakes, is an anthropomorphic term for "adjusting its jaw." Snakes don't, as far as we know, actually yawn to increase oxygen intake or indicate a condition of sleepiness, but they do need periodic jaw realignments and it looks a lot like a yawn.

[kontron]

the good ol stretching of jaw muscles. i think that snakes do "yawn" in addition to adjusting their jaw. roo and roswell will yawn a ton when we wake them up. after 20 minutes of sitting still and yawning over and over they get some energy and explore. they only yawn when they are woken up or when they are adjusting their jaws after a meal. because of the amount opf yawns i see when they are freshly woken i think it is yawning.. just my opinion.

[BallPythonBabe448]

oh never seen mine do that!

[Brandon.O]

it scared the crap outta me when i first got her, i was very scared about handling her and even got her out with a hanger (like a hook, you know) and she did it and i felt my heart jump and i almost dropped her.But after awhile i got used to it and now i think its really cute/cool

[BPnewbie]

yea my bp 'yawns' basically every time i take him out of his cage......geez he is so lazy