Hasn't happened with any of my kings, but it happened to an adult locality Yellow Rat I had not long ago. It tipped it's water bowl everywhere, and the aspen got wet and had mildew from the warm environment, and it came down with an upper respiratory infection. It was doing the typical "clicking", "ticking", and mouth gaping indicative of an R.I... Aspen is very notorius for mildewing very quickly when it gets wet. But this can EASILY happen with other substrates when kept very damp/wet as well, especially when there is minimal air movement.



I will admit this happened after I didn't check up on it for a good while, which was certainly not smart on my part, but nontheless, this can easily happen given the right(wrong) conditions.



I immediately corrected the situation, and administered a wide-spectrum antibiotic, along with raised temps, and it got better within about 10 days, but it proves that things can go bad quickly sometimes with very moist environments.





~Doug
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"a snake in the grass is a GOOD thing"

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