BP Health Issues?

[M_king0347]

So, as of these past two days my snake has been showing on and off signs of stress; raising her body up to touch the screen lid, constant moving around, the whole ordeal.

The last I fed her she's been fine, and has eaten every time she's been offered before then too.

As for the stress, nothing has changed in her vivarium, her humidity and temps are fine, there's nothing wrong with them, dropping a bit at night as usual.

Also no signs of an RI, no wheezing, no whistling, no heavier breathing, nothing. No mouth or scale rot either.

I also noticed these scales almost out of place. I figured maybe she scratched herself on her hides, but I'm not so sure. She's always had these two extra shiny ones on her head, but these are different.

I know now she's not shedding, as she's shed about half a month ago, so not very long. (All in one piece surprisingly)

ive seen no signs of mites either, no soaking, no bugs on her body, absolutely nothing.




Here's a top view of her head :


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My question is, what could this be? And why is she stressing over nothing?

[Craiga 01453]

Is this behavior primarily at night? Or throughout they daytime as well?
When was she last fed?
What is her weight and what are you feeding for prey?

[PitOnTheProwl]

What are the actual temperatures?
What are you using to take them?
Where are you taking them from?

[M_king0347]

What are the actual temperatures?
What are you using to take them?
Where are you taking them from?

Im using three digital thermometers for the temps, one from the cold side, ambient middle, and hot side.

Temps now are 90 hot side, 82 cold side, 88 ambient

[M_king0347]

Is this behavior primarily at night? Or throughout they daytime as well?
When was she last fed?
What is her weight and what are you feeding for prey?

Yes, it's mostly at night, from what I've seen so far. She was last fed today, and she went after it immediately! As for her weight I'm not sure, her food is frozen rat pups which she hasn't rejected yet.

[PitOnTheProwl]

Temps now are 90 hot side, 82 cold side, 88 ambient

What are you using for a heat source? If its an under tank, you are getting your hot side temperature under the substrate right?

[Trisnake]

Sounds like roaming for food in my opinion.

[Ogre]

Sounds like roaming for food in my opinion.

That's my thought too, try going up in size to a weaned rat. Also wiegh it a couple days before you do your next feeding. The prey items should roughly be 10% of it's body wiegh.

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[Ogre]

As far as the scales on top of it's head it looks like they might have shed kinda funny. It's happened to mine before they're fine now.

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