I've done research before posting this but I thought I'd post here to see what you all thought.

First off, I have a 2 year old male who last ate a rat 4 days ago. I've only had him (he's my first) a couple weeks. Temps are 92 on the warm side, and 75 on the cool side. The Rh is 55% in a 30 long tank with a substrate of Exo-Terra Jungle Earth. He did a full shed about a week ago.

The problem is whenever I handle him a while, like 5 or ten minutes, he starts to whistle. Some might say wheezing. Its definitely not a hiss, its rhythmic. It seems like it was the loudest on either the inspiration or the exhalation, one or the other.

I know it sounds like an RI but I because it doesn't start until after hes been handled a while I wonder if it could be stress.

Today it seemed like he was stretching toward the floor while I was holding him. It was like he wanted to get down. Then I heard the whistling. When I put him back it seemed like he was eager to get back in his cage and pretty much went straight into his warm hide.

I've seen no bubbling or discharge from the mouth whatsoever.

His previous owners didn't handle him a lot and when I got him he hadn't eaten right and had a bad shed and was pretty dehydrated, so it was basically a rescue situation.

Oh yeah, I didn't see any shed left on the head anywhere. I've made an appointment with the Vet for Monday.