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DMong
at Sun Jan 31 20:49:57 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by DMong ]
Yes, ticking and popping are not good signs at all, and it is very likely signs of an RI taking hold. Raise the temps(as you said) to the very high 80's(on one side of enclosure) and give him plenty of humidity and water. BTW, it is definitely drinking, you just don't see the snake when it is doing so.
The extra heat will help the snake's auto-immune/metabolism speed-up to help combat this until you can get it to a vet for diagnosis and treatment. They usually do a "sensitivity culture" to see which antibiotics will best target the infection.
Good luck Jasmine, and let us know how it goes!.
BTW, do you have your new extreme hypo on a decent heat source in the mid-upper 80's on one end of it's small enclosure?. You certainly don't need another snake going through the very same thing from the same conditions. 
~Doug
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- Okay, problem! - jazmaniandevil, Sun Jan 31 17:59:44 2010
 RE: Okay, problem! - DMong, Sun Jan 31 20:49:57 2010
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