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Re: Temp Low/Humidity High
 Originally Posted by Bobbafett
That poor thing 
Could we see a picture of your set up?
Also, what are your temperatures at?
Bp's need a cool side of 79-81ish and a hot side of 89-91ish. Ambient is fine at 80.
Do you have a regulated heat source?
If you're using a tank, wetting a towel and covering the majority of the lid will work to help keep humidity up. If your humidity is as high as you think, the glass on the aquarium would be fogging up. If humidity is just high in your area, try an oscillating fan.
Could we see pictures of him?
The wheezing could mean he's gotten an ri. If he sounds as bad as you say, a vet visit would most likely be in order.
Pictures here in a second once I get them uploaded to tinypic. I didn't bother to take him out of his cage tonight, so the pictures aren't real in detail. He's been through quite a bit already and I've disturbed his night routine a couple times already checking on him.
He's doing a lot of nosing around the top of the cage, acting like he's trying to get out. The humidity dropped back down, thankfully. Sitting in the proper zone now, about 54%. Gotta' keep a monitor on that, but I think it may have just been an improper reading or something. I just got a little cheapy non-digital thermo-hygrometer combo. If the humidity does go back up, I've got plenty of fans that I can use. I set a big tupperware full of water in with him. I don't think he's ever seen so much water. He doesn't seem quite sure what to do with it all, but I am pretty sure that he got himself a drink earlier.
Temperature is still low, about 81, so his whole enclosure is a little on the cool side. I don't think I'm gonna' see much change in that until tomorrow. Probe says 81, little dual thermo says about 83 or 84, but it's sitting higher than the probe. Regardless, I'll get that taken care of here tomorrow with a heat pad.
The shedding probably isn't as bad as I make it sound, but he does have probably half a dozen little pieces of dead skin still attached. Nothing bigger than 1/8th of an inch. I think having a pool to swim around in will probably help though. When I picked him up, he actually didn't have any water available and the bowl that my buddy was using was just a regular cereal bowl, definitely not big enough for him to put his whole body into.
He's still got the little wheeze going on. Kind of sounds like a whistle, which I've heard is a respiratory issue. Any way for me to treat that without taking him to the vet? I think just having proper temps and humidity and a decent meal (apparently he hasn't had anything to eat in about 4 weeks either), will improve his health a little bit. He's also yawned (or whatever that was) a couple of times too. Do ball pythons yawn? LoL.
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