OMG.....my worst fear has come to pass

[Salamander Rising]

My normal female has an RI!

As if that's not bad enough, she is the one who's been 'dating' my males, including my beloved lap snake Pastel!

She has slobbers, bubbles coming out of her nose and I can feel a rattle in her lungs.

Out here in the wastelands, I don't even have an actual herp vet nearby, let alone an emergency one!

When she was in with the Pastel, I saw her yawn once.

Other than that she seemed fine but 2 days later, I noticed her laying with her head on her coils but thought nothing of it because most of my snakes lay like that from time to time.

I went to pull her out tonight after feeding everybody else just to pet her a bit and as I reached in, she yawned and I saw slimy stuff.

When I took her out, I saw the drool, nose bubbles and felt the rattle.

I couldn't get her mouth open to look inside and see anything else to describe.

She got upset by me trying to clear the bubbles from her nostrils and was 'gasping' or open-mouth breathing briefly.

She just came out of blue and what I thought was the normal pre-shed milky look was her back having dried snot-crud on it from her mouth.

She doesn't seem to have an rapid breathing rate or is struggling to breathe but the slime and the rattle!

I am well and truly screwed, aren't I?

Everybody's she's had contact with is going to catch it now, aren't they?

Is it contagious before it shows obvious signs?

She spent a whole night with my lap snake, playing slap and tickle/raised tail dancing.

All this on top of one of my dogs dying Wednesday morning.
I could just lay down and cry.



The irony is we had to take another dog to the vet for blood tests and I asked the vet if he could do snakes but he knows nothing about them.
I asked if he at least knew how/where to inject them and he said he could try.

I know to move her far away from the other snakes now but isn't it too late, already?

They've all been breathing the same air in the same room as her plus several of them have had direct contact.