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Help, suspected respiratory infection
Hello everyone, im back again for an unexpected and worrisome reason. I hope I'm not annoying with all my worries but i genuinely am scared for my BP now. Yesterday was feeding day, and i got 2 hopper mice ready for him (for those who don't know he's still a baby). Everything was alright until the second mouse, cause when i peeked into his mouth i saw something from the side that looked like sticky excess of saliva, and i saw it about 3 times. I didn't pay attention much on the first 2 times cause it was night and pretty dark, the only light source was a lamp that wasn't close enough to light over each side of the container, so i thought it was just my imagination or something else but saliva. The third time i got a better look and i really started to suspect something, but i really can't say 100% if i truly saw something strange or not. I was tired that moment, i fed him in the middle of the night, so i don't know if i just saw things wrong. All i can say is that i couldn't continue to clearly peek in my BP's mouth, it was dirty with substrate he was trying to get rid of as always, but his color inside looked normal, i just couldn't check for saliva well enough in the end. He also made "poppy" noises swallowing down his prey, and what i can say for sure is that his behaviour didn't change. He's hungry as normal, always alert with any of my movement hoping for food, no bubbles anywhere, always hiding and occasionally changing hides and sipping water. Now cause of my suspicion i can't calm down, especially knowing that snakes hide from being ill well. I added 1 deegree (C°) on each side (from 26° to 27° on the cool side and from 30 to 31 on the other, i use 2 heat mats w thermostats) just in case, but i'll lower the temps back if needed. I don't think it's a good idea to open his mouth before 2 days after feeding, i don't even know if im able to do it cause he's not 100% trusting of me yet to let me do that,so i really want to hear your opinions on this. What should i do? Should i worry even if his behaviour is still the same? I always tried to keep a good temp on both sides and i keep humidity at 60-70% always now, i would leave it between 50 and 60 long ago until i found out it's too dry for him. He also sheds in 1 piece each month.
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