Hi. I have a ball python, I've had him for two years. I just moved across the country and drove with him from the south to the north. I feel like maybe the car ride and huge temperature change might have stressed him out and caused him to act erratically? Otherwise I don't know what could have caused this.
But basically after I moved in, I set up his tank and he moved into a spot right under his heat lamp and stayed there for a full day without moving. Then yesterday he randomly started slithering around his tank faster than I've ever seen him move before. He's usually pretty slow and calm. He likes to try to explore and escape but it's never been so frantic looking. He was moving his head around kind of wildly. He also has been scraping his head against things and soaking a bit... which is fairly normal for him about to go into shed, which is what I thought was going on. But today I looked over and noticed him scraping his face repeatedly against a bark hide he has in his tank. He kept scraping his face against the bark in the same spot and I noticed that it looks red and sore there... there's a small spot at the base of his mouth kind of on his cheek on the left side of his head. I've never seen this happen before? And he kept scraping the same spot... I have absolutely no idea why. I took the bark out of his cage so he wouldn't have anything rough to keep irritating the spot.
At first I thought his moving around so much was because he was hungry (he's a bit overdue to be fed because of the move) but now I'm concerned something else is wrong because of the sore on his face. Should I still feed him? I'm worried about him being hungry but I don't want to give him a mouse if he's sick or hurting.
Please help, I'm at a loss and really worried about him.
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