So one of my ball pythons is making a weird whistling sound while I handle her. It seems to be worse at night from what I can tell. When she's in her cage she makes almost what sounds like a sneezing or pushing out air sound on the occasion. I've heard this is a sign of RI but I have a dedicated snake room so I keep everything as accurate as possible. She's housed in a rack system with humidity levels between 65-75%, hot spot of 90, and ambient of 79-80. I'm going to quarantine her just in case anything pops up because there's no signs of any mucus or bubbles and this started happening about a week or so ago. Sometimes she whistles loudly while I handle her and sometimes she doesn't do it. Last time she shed was a few weeks back so I'm not sure if it could be stuck shed or something in her nose or not. Was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen to any of their snakes? For now she'll be quarantined from the rest of my collection and I'll make sure to bump the hot spot temps up a bit just to be safe.
I would also like to add that all the other 15 snakes in my collection are feeding great, going to the bathroom fine and shedding perfect. I'm just amazed right now that something that seems like an RI has popped up when I try to keep everything so spot on and I'm using a tempgun to measure the temps and a sensor push to measure humidity.
Thanks for any input!
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