Greetings Fellow Herpers


I have an 03' female het. albino boa that I have had since Christmas day. I noticed recently that I can hear her breath. Not a crackly wheezy sound just an audible noise. If I have her out and barely squeeze on her just to force out a little extra air it doesn't sound wheezy then either.

She is kept in a boaphile rack with a 89F hot spot and around 80-82F on the cool side. She has eaten for me without fail every week and has amazingly fast tongue flicks. She has clean nostrils and I rolled the underside of her lip back and there is no bubbles or mucus. I am extremely meticulous about my animals almost to the point that it becomes OCD.

The only thing that I have read about RI that it could be is that she is stressed from her new environment and the fact that she slugged out on the guy that I bought her from(he was discouraged and practically gave her to me... a friend of mine though) She had 9 albinos and 11 normals that went 2-3 weeks premature because he moved and had to take her with him. She went into early labor because of the move.

Any advice or constructive critisism would be greatly appreciated. I have several other boas in the same room and rack and nothing is coming from them.

Thanks in Advance Guys

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