Arguing with the vet close to me

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For starters, my brother who's living with me has a Super Pastel male, who's about 3 years old. For the last week just about, he had bubbles, and mucus coming out of his mouth. So, I thought RI.

Sounds like an RI to me!

The snake is kept in my room in a rack with my fiance and I's three BPs.

No problem (but get that guy into Q before the rest of the kids pick it up)...

I hear the vet going on and on about how no snake should be kept without full spectrum lighting, no bedding other and newspaper or paper towels, and that a rack system should only be used by breeders because they constantly move snakes that they sell. The reasoning behind the rack thing was the most idiotic thing I've ever heard: "You can't keep the temperatures constant, and any pet should be kept in it's own separate glass enclosure."

Sounds like this vet has limited exposure to exotics... just enough research to form an opinion, not enough to form a well educated one.

without doing a culture or anything, they threw him on antibiotics for a sinus infection.

When we got our boy Killer on antibiotics, we didn't do a culture - the vet said that 9 times out of 10, the full-spectrum AB would take care of it, but if he didn't clear up, we could do a culture (which is an additional hefty cost) to pinpoint the problem and put him on specialized ABs. Sounds like your go-between made the right choice with the limited information she had. But with that kind of attitude, I would certainly look into finding an Exotics vet, with more knowledge about BPs.