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    Healthy snakes can tilt their heads when they're relaxing, I don't think it means anything, & BPs aren't the fastest moving snakes either. Hard to say if what
    you're seeing is significant or not...neurological issues can be caused from being over-heated or over-exposed to say, Provent-A-Mite (aka PAM), but we aren't
    seeing your snakes to diagnose...sure hope it's only that you're over-thinking this & worrying needlessly. You said you just added a few snakes, but for how
    long have you been keeping snakes before this? I ask because I've been keeping snakes for many years & often can tell that something is off even when a
    vet sees nothing amiss; if you're real observant, you might be right that something is wrong with them, but no way I can tell you for sure...wish I could. This
    isn't so much a symptom of having mites, but mites are thought to be disease vectors (-they can carry & spread diseases). Did all your new snakes come from
    the same source? or different ones? Sure hope they are quarantined from your others & that you are practicing good isolation techniques? Are they eating?
    Last edited by Bogertophis; 09-29-2018 at 08:45 PM.

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