Quote Originally Posted by baller29 View Post
Same thing happened to me when I bought my BP.She had a RI, Plus she was ready to shed when I got her. I noticed when i got her home that she would "yawn" constantly. We have a vet here who has a herp vet on call, just in case. I was instructed to give her Baytril for 20 days. I think with the medicine and the visit, it cost 50 bucks, After her medicine was finished, she was alot more active, and she shed a perfect shed when i raised the humidity in her enclosure.
Respiratory infections are very common when buying snakes from pet stores, mostly because if one is sick, they can all catch it just from being housed together, as well, most pet stores do not meet husbandry requirements. Baytril is the most common thing given to treat them, for snakes, injections are the best because when given oral their metabolism is very slow compared to a monitor lizard or geckos, or anything else, therefor, oral takes a very long time to even see a small improvement.

You can most likely spend less than I do for a vet visit, I chose my vet because she specializes in reptiles and other exotics. She is not the cheapest vet around, but knows her stuff and really cares,but also, she doesn't cost an arm and a leg either.