A couple of weeks ago I was up pretty late and I noticed that my pastel ball python was moving around in her terrarium doing what ball pythons do
She doesn't move that often so I decided to watch her and see what she was up to. After about a minute or so things started to get weird. She randomly looked up at her heat lamp (probably because she felt the warmth coming from it) and then all of a sudden she started thrashing her head left and right. She also had her mouth wide open as well while doing this. After about 10 seconds she finally stopped and returned back to her normal behavior.

Over the past few weeks I've been keeping an eye on her and she has not repeated this event.

My question is, could this have been a seizure? Or was she just startled by me watching her?

Before anyone says anything about respiratory infections, I'm pretty sure its not. The temps and humidity are both where they should be and she has not shown any symptoms of an RI (wheezing, constantly starring up, etc)

I was wondering if anyone has ever seen this before. Thanks

Eric