Well, one of the BP's I got recently has a respiratory infection (thankfully, not the pastel ). I first noticed something was wrong when the fork in her tongue was stuck together. I phoned a breeder friend of mine, and he told me that generally when this happens it's because of a respiratory infection. He told me to check inside her mouth, which I did, and I didn't notice any bubbles or mucus. Just a little bit of substrate. I rinsed the substrate out of her mouth, as he advised, and then right after I put her back in the cage, I noticed a bit of bubbling.

Anyway, his recommendation was to raise temps just a little bit, leave her completely alone for a few days, and then try feeding her a live prey item. Apparently, frozen/thawed rodents have less vitamin C in them than live ones. I googled just to make sure he wasn't talking crazy, and sure enough, I saw a few documents recommending that frozen/thawed prey items be injected with vitamin C to make up for what's lost during the freezing/thawing process. You could do that instead of feed live I guess. This female BP of mine has good weight and muscle tone to her, and I think she will recover on her own in a few days, being an otherwise pretty healthy specimen. If she's not better in a week, I'll definitely be booking a vet appointment.

Anyway, just though I'd share what I could, as I've never had a snake develop an RI on me before. Hope what I've said helps.