Quote Originally Posted by BPelizabeth View Post
aspen is a good substrate but honestly I use paper towels...much easier clean up and personally I like it best. As for the squeak...it sounds like maybe your snake is getting ready to go into shed...especially if he is rubbing his head. Look for a blue phase...(sometimes it is easy to miss) but their eyes look a little blue/silver/milky prior to a shed. Make sure during this time you up the humidity to around 70%.

A good sign to look for with resp. infections is bubbles in the mouth, wheezing, open mouth breathing is a very bad sign.
Oh, I did actually notice I could see the slit in his eye because his eyes are more silver but I thought I just didn't notice before hand. I just don't like the look of aspen, I like the brown and more natural looking substrates. They go with how my tank looks, but if I had to switch I definitely would.

I was really worried about the little guy. Thanks for helping me since I am a new ball python owner and I don't have much first hand experience.