My Honduran milk snake has been displaying some symptoms that i am growing more concerned about. When this first started, he was making popping and clicking noises, and sometimes a wheezing noise that sounded like a sneeze. He would open his mouth one side at a time and he had a lot of mucus. We took him to the vet and he was first put on an antibiotic that I can't remember the name of, and when that didn't work the vet put him on Baytryl. That didn't seem to be working either, so we fogged him with a eucalyptus steam, and then fogged him with F-10 and that seemed to work. It seemed to get a lot better after he shed, but we continued to fog the F-10 for a week to be safe.

Since then he has been better but is still having symptoms. It seems to get worse before he sheds, he makes a lot of popping, clicking, and sneezing sounds and occasionally open mouth breathes, and usually hides for a few days. After he sheds he tends to be more active and does not open mouth breathe, and we only hear the occasional clicking sound. Other than that, he is active and eats normally, and is not quarantined from the other snakes.

However, recently our snakes had to be boarded for an extended period of time, and after we got them back we noticed the milk snake seemed to be doing a little bit worse than usual. He hid for a few days and was making a lot of clicking and sneezing sounds, and recently has been more active but has been open mouth breathing quite a lot, but no saliva. He held his mouth open for quite a while and I saw no mucus, but I am still concerned about why his mouth was open in the first place.

It doesn't seem to be a bacteria since the antibiotics didn't work, none of our other snakes have gotten sick, and it's been going on for quite a while, so any advice on what this could possibly be and/or what I can do to help my snake would be much appreciated!

Thanks!

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