RI

[Super_Smash]

Ok... i'm kinda nervous about this. Tonight when i was holding Pandora, i heard these little squeakyish-wheezing sounding noises, every so often. it almost sounded like really faint sneezes or something, but it scared me. What is a respiratory infection and what are the signs? I'm prayin my little girl doesnt have it and that she just had sniffles... er, i dont know if they can have sniffles... but still! it just started tonight though, i havent heard anything til now

[RobertCoombs]

well It could be .. but the best thing to dois make sure she has good basking temps maybe even bump it up a few degrees . The first thing I would check and see if her belly is starting to look pink ... which means she might be going into a shed snakes commonly wheez a bit during shed cycle
just keep an eye on her other wise

[Super_Smash]

The first thing I would check and see if her belly is starting to look pink

a little further down, closer to her tail than her head, it looks kinda pinkish. i'll keep an eye on her, i just got her a few weeks ago, i'd be crushed if anything happened to her!!

[mlededee]

what makes them wheeze when they are in shed?

[RobertCoombs]

commonly unknown to most reptile keepers ... the out side skin is not the only skin to shed the skin in their mouth and on their tounge sheds aswell along with teeth sometimes the skin can get positioned in a way that it makes a sound when they breath much like when you blow a blade of grass between your fingers
It would probably be best not to handle her as well for a couple of days give here some good settling in time try not to stress her much just incase it is a RI comeing on

[Super_Smash]

oh wow... i didnt know that. Well, if she is gona shed, she definately hasnt started yet. her eyes are still clear and everything. But im curious about her eye... right in the middle, she has like a dent, it looks like. i mean it doesnt seem to bother her, its just her eye kinda goes in, like she got poked with something. hmmm.... im just now noticing things on her because im getting paranoid! you guys are rubbing off on me!! better safe than sorry!

[RobertCoombs]

well the dent you see is most likely related to humidity and hydration a good soaking in uncolored gator aid with help hydrate her but make sure you are keeping the humidity at least in the 50-60%

[Cody]

You can soak your snake in gatorade to rehydrate them? And by uncolored, you mean that clear stuff like Gatorade Ice? Whoa, never would've thought that. lol Learn something new everyday...

[led4urhead]

I've never heard of soaking in gatorade either. I've always soaked in some tepid water and a bit of unscented dove soap. Your eye dent Semper is probably caused by low humidity. Definitely get it bumped up to somewhere between 50-60%.

[elevatethis]

The things you are talking about all point to a shed coming on. During the last 2 sheds, my bp has dented one or both of her eye caps; its not because she's dehydrated, its just because theres a new eyecap forming underneath, and the old one is getting ready to come of. So don't worry about that. Also, as far as the wheezing goes, just increase the temps a little to be certain, but I think its just for the reasons that Robert Combs mentioned above.