The Return of the Nose Whistle

[captainjack0000]

About a month ago I posted what I thought was the very early sign of an RI - a very faint nose whistle. However, the symptom first arrived after a shed. The shed wasn't spectacular, but my husbandry seems to be okay. (Yes, the last shed wasn't great, but being out of town makes it harder to keep the humidty up.)

Anyway, after about a week or 10 days the whistle apprently stopped so it seemed the shed was the culprit.

She shed again last week, this time it came out in 1 piece. But the nose whistle has returned. I hear no popping, or wheezing, its a high pitched shrill. And I see no mucus or gummy cheesy stuff. No mucus on the glass, or draping over branches to drain fluids.

The whistle can seemingly come and go in the 15 minutes of handling. It varies in loudness too. A bigger exhale (or inhale I guess) makes for a louder sound.

So did some Florida gnomes implant a piccolo in my BP or what is going on?

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She's a summer of '011 hatchling, ~28" eating small rats weekly.
I have humidity anywhere between 40% and 60% unless during shed, then its bumped to 70% or 80%.
I have a rheostat to control temps (gradient from 77-86 with 90ish basking spot) I use a heat lamp during the day, and a UTH at night (will continue this until the light bulb burns out, then probalby only UTH or ceramic heat emitter...)
She's in a 40 gallong breeder with 2 large sticks, 2 fake plants, two half logs (end to end to make a 16" long half log (and these actually cover a smaller lengthwsie cut cardboard shipping tube)) and a similar setup on the cool side (these are about 12" long and no shipping tube underneath).

[RichsBallPythons]

Need to keep up on the humidity when shedding. The sound is from skin in the nostrils you might have to manually take out.

[ballpythonluvr]

Rich is spot on. My female normal came to me with stuck shed and retained eye caps and was whistling like crazy. I bumped up her humidity and all the old skin and eye caps came off. I do use tubs though so I do not have to struggle with humidity. No more whistling going on here.

[captainjack0000]

Alright, so how do I remove skin from inside the nostril? I don't see anything, but then again, that nostril is tiny.

Or is this one of those things where after another couple of really good sheds it should work itself out?

Or do I just need to raise the overall non-shed time humidity?

[ballpythonluvr]

It should come off with the next shed as long as you raise that humidity real good. That is exactly what I did with my female normal and it came off.

[captainjack0000]

I'll try it again.

This is the same advice given to me last time, and I had a complete shed (1 piece) last week. The whistle returned afterwards.
But consistent answers suggests it the same problem. Outside of hiring the piccolo implanting gnomes to remove it, higher humidy will hopefully work next time.

I'm just happy to know its not a RI, or any other serious issue.

Thanks everybody.