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    need some help.....

    Hello to all I have been on here before but forgot my username and passowrd it has been so long. Anyways, I was pairing up my ball pythons around for breeding I went back in to check waters and mist 30mins later. I checked on my one girl that was with my pastel. I looked at her and noticed she had saliva coming out of her mouth with a piece of shed off of the pastel. I took her out and held her head down and grabbed a qtip. I then noticed she had blood on the side of her mouth. I opened her mouth and she had some saliva and blood in her mouth. A couple months ago she did have a respitory infection that I got rid of with flortaz shots every 3 days for 7 vaccinations. It left the building. Is it back now again for a second time but worse? I looked at the pastel thinking she might have bit him (I've had it happen before just cause my snakes seem to have such a feedsing responce) and he was fine. What do you guys think ? I'm at a loss cause I mist once a week for them. Here's the set up:

    CB 70 animal plastics 12 high rack with the back of the tub at 92-95 degrees and the front of the tub at 74 (because the bedroom is staying at that temp so I haven't needed to cool to breed because the room did it for me) and I mist and everything so I don't know why it came back she goes back and forth on the heat tape and eveything. So what am I doing wrong?
    Sorry about thw long post . Suggestions comments are greatly appreciated!!! Talk to you all soon

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    Re: need some help.....

    Are you trying to say that your one snake bit the other? If that's what you're saying, they could be both males.

    If you think your snake may be sick, it may be because the one side of the cage is too cool. If it spends a lot of time at 74 degrees, it could get sick. BG tells everyone that just because a snake has a hot spot, it doesn't mean it's gonna use it. Snakes can be dumb. If it is sick, you're going to need to get it treated again, then change your husbandry.

    Also, if you mist a snake that is too cold, it is more prone to get an RI. A snake is much more likely to get an RI in a cool damp cage.

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    Re: need some help.....

    Pretty much what BG said, x2.

    I'm gonna be cliche and say, "Oh my god, I just agreed with BG."
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    Re: need some help.....

    That makes sence about the staying on the coolside bg. However the pastel is a male and the normal female is a female she laid 6 eggs for me last year this is my third breeding season. I would love to raise the temps more but the heat sucks in my apartment and can't get it past that 74 75 range. I never had an issue before. It was weird cause the next day I opened her mouth and she was fone. So I took her to the vet and nothing showed up. So don't know what it was. But thanks again for the help bg greatly appreciated it just shocked me to open up the tub and see that. Thanks again!!!!!!!!!!

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