Quote Originally Posted by Gio View Post
I think its commonplace for a lot of retics to have banged up faces. Maybe not good, but a common occurrence for a lot of them to exhibit some goofy mouths.

Hey, just FYI, I gave Wallace a bath tonight to get I'm to Pee and he was breathing hard the rest of the night. I don't think he particularly liked his bath experience. I saw him loading up toward me for a strike so I used a shampoo bottle to break his aggression, I got two nice, wide mouthed threat displays after that.

He was making heavy breathing sounds with a slight whistle after being wet. I think every snake I've put in the tub has made those same sounds.

I doubt your husbandry is off, but I would like to see how she behaves with a 76-77 degree night drop from 22:00 Hrs to maybe 08:30 the next morning.

Personally, I can't see how anything is off as you've had such a wonderful first year with her.

Also, after a bad strike, Ive had both the royal python and the boa here, have screwed up faces for a couple of days. The royal was the first snake here when we got it for our son. She had me concerned because her lip was folded in after a weird strike. It went away in 2 days.

I think the pushing coupled with possibly, a not ideal strike could account for the swelling.

Keep and eye on it, but I'll bet a good meal and a new cage will help.

Haha, I haven't given Caesar a bath yet. I have sprayed him with a water bottle though and he seems to not mind it.

Caesar did those wide open mouth threats when he was a baby at his hook. I quit using that and since then he has been mellow.

He could drop the temp a little but honestly I think its food pushing. He's got a female which are food driven more than males from what I've been told. Worth a shot though but Caesar for example is kept about 80-82F on his cool side and 92F on the hot spot. I don't have changing ambient temps since I just use flexwatt so basically the whole cage ambient is 80-82F or whatever the cool side temp is.

And I agree, JM is probably fine on husbandry.

Guess I've been lucky in that none of my snakes have gotten a messed up face from food. Rosey has even freakin grabbed the feeding tongs a few times and wrapped them up with her rat and had the tongs in her mouth. I use the BBQ tongs for her. Then when she lets go and finally picks the rat up, I quicky slide the tongs out haha. As for Dottie, she doesn't eat enough to get anything screwed up lol. It's closing in on 4.5 months since shes eaten.