Arrgh!

[Kinra]

Im sorry mayte... just try your best. I would give the cinny a nice warm soak and see if that possible stuck shed comes off. My best wishes to he/him. Also, you can try and put another UTH in on a dimmer to raise the cool side a little bit since its getting cold there. Keep us updated and best of luck, you can rant anytime btw we understand

Thanks, it's always feels good to rant to people who can give constructive feedback. All of my family/friends think I'm nuts and just don't understand.

71-72 really is okay. If it drops past that, you might want to throw a blanket over the tanks (you're using a UTH, not a lamp?) But at 72F they can thermoregulate just fine, they'll just hang out mostly on the warm spot.

Awesome, thank you. I've been stressing out that my apartment was way to cold for them. If it drops below 70 I'm call my apartment office to complain, I've gotten used to the heat.

The cinny might be "whistling" not wheezing. Some snakes do it around shed time. My black pastels do it ALL the time. They whistle when they're annoyed at me, they whistled when they're excited, they whistle when they do any climbing or crawling at all. It's surprisingly loud! I took them both to the vet, he did a mouth check, and there were no signs of an RI. So I guess it's just the shape of their nasal passageways? Maybe it's the single-gene version of the duck-billing you see in the black supers?

To be safe, you should either take the cinny to the vet, or do an oral check yourself. Get a good grasp on the cinny's head/neck, take a q-tip, hold it sideways, and push the cinny's nose up until its mouth opens. Hold the upper jaw open with the q-tip, and have a look around--- mouth should look pale pink. White may mean anemic. Bright pink or red or any dark colors are bad. Wet is okay, but bubbles and drool are not.

You shouldn't hear any whistling with the mouth open, because the snake is mouth breathing at that point, not nose-breathing. Whistling at this point means trouble...

Then again, you may not notice, because if this is the first time you've ever done an oral check, there will be lots of thrashing and squirming to pay attention to! Which is why the vet may be the safest option. But I try to do oral checks once a year on all my animals. Older animals usually get the drift and start cooperating.

I did open her mouth and her mouth looks fine. I'm sadly used to it because I am treating my enchi for a RI. He had bubbles in the back of his throat so he got antibiotics. He just got his last dose this morning so I get to fight with him in a few days to check on him and call my vet with an update. He's 500g of angry snake, especially when you want to open his mouth.

I'm going to keep an eye on her. I didn't realize a cinnies/black pastels whistled. But that might be what it was. It also most sounded like she wanted to hiss at me but wasn't pushing the air out fast enough. She was very tense and not to happy about being held. Thank you for the great information.