Is this an RI??

[Tig]

I just got my first Ball Python yesterday, he's a male about 3.5' long from a place called Parrots of the World in Long Island NY. He was steadily eating frozen food at the store, and his enclosure at the store was fine... not overly humid and it was nice and warm. Since I got him home last night, I have heard him make a "fffffffsssss" sound say, 4 or 5 times. I held my ear to his face and listened to him breathe for 5 minutes straight, and there was no sound and the breathing wasn't irregular, but when I put him back in the tank, he made a loud wheezing sound. He ONLY seems to do it when I put him back in the tank or if he's uncomfortable with the way I'm holding him. He's also opaque, if that means anything. If it helps, the enclosure is a 20 long, with a 60watt red heat lamp and a heat pad, substrate is aspen shavings, a big water dish in the middle, and obviously a hide on both ends. The humidity is around 30. I would be surprised if the Snake was sick, because that store has a very very good track record and guarentees all their animals for a year. What do you guys think?



PS My first Snake died of a respiratory infection, and he did all kinds of weird stuff... gaping, drooling, discharge on the tongue, and eventually not even flickering his tongue, breathing deeply, and sunken in eyes. This guy is showing none of that... no gaping, normal flickering of the tongue, no tongue discharge, no drooling, eyes are fine (milky because of being opaque), just the occasional wheeze when he's off-balance.