Quote Originally Posted by Sauzo View Post
Are you sure he doesn't have an RI and the substrate is sticking to the mucous coming out of his nostrils? I'll say it again but in the 2 years I've has my BCI girl, I've never seen aspen stuck in her nostrils. Same with my old BP which I had for 10 years. I mean they live in termite mounds and in dirt holes where there is tons of debris around and they do fine. I just cant figure out how your one snake has managed to get aspen in his nose multiple times and not be able to expel it with a huff.

And bathes are fine as long as you are using warm water. Some don't like it though. Both my snakes act like its acid but they don't mind a nice rubdown with a warm wet washcloth. When my BCI got poop on her head(god knows how she did it), I gave her a bath and used a washcloth to wipe her head down. She isn't head shy so it wasn't too bad. You can try that.
I am going to clear things up. I have 9 bps. My humidity is still getting under control. Which I know is a problem. My problem is my snake has had coconut fibers in his nose for almost 2 weeks now. When I said aspen it was another ball python(I have more than one). But before all of this. I bought a vpi axanthic adult male. He was sold to me with an RI infection. Now 2 weeks go by I get another ball python( which was the first one with substrate in its nose). It was weezing about 2 weeks after I purchased it. I instantly went into panic mode and took her to the vet. I was convinced she had an RI. But the vet seemed certain it wasn't. This is when the vet pointed out to me that she had some aspen in her nose. The vet took my ball python to the back and when she came back, she said that the reason she was weeping was because the aspen was stuck in her nose and caused mucus to build up behind making the wheezing sound. Now flash forward to today. I still have the vpi axanthic male, which still has an RI. He is not in the rack system. And now my male cinnamon has substrate which is loose coconut fibers in his nostrils. I switched to loose coconut fibers as my substrate for all my bps. Also the same female that had the substrate in her nose that I took to the vet, has loose coconut fibers in one of her nostrils. Now, what leads me to believe that neither of them have RI infections, is that they are both still slamming rats. Also they are not bubbling at the mouth. They are active. The only problem is they have substrate in their nostrils. The male cinnamon has it in both. The female albino spider has it in one nostril. The albino spider is the one that I took to the vet thinking she has an RI when it was just substrate. The Vpi axanthic male adult with the RI does not have substrate in his nose either, so if the other bps with the substrate in their nose had an RI the plugged nostrils would not be a side effect. Now can someone please just tell me how the hell do I get the substrate out of their nose? Because i am extremely fustrated.