my 6 month old Ball Python ate 3 small mice on 12/3/03 and since then has not taken any offerings of mice or rats. she eats all prekilled. She used to eat 4 mice a week. she moves around and it seems like she doesn't see the mouse until she is almost on top of it. and she doesnt seem to notice it at all until she touches it with her nose and then she jerks away from it and balls up. What could be causing this. notihng in the tank had changed. I checked her mouth it looks a little white but there is no "cottage cheese" stuff...could this be mouth rot? does anyone have a picture of a ball python with mouth rot. I also just bought another snake and after I bought it I found out that another snake in the shop had just died of a respritory infection of some sort and didnt show any signs the first day and was dead the next. I have been paying close attention to both of them and my female whom I have had the whole time has a wet nose every time I take her out of the cage but the wet feels like water. if she had an infection would the wet be thicker? aslo she has not weezed or opened her mouth to breath at all. she is also just as active as before and will move around the tank trying to excape. my biggest problem is that I am leaving college and going home for a month and I have been unable to find a herp vet in winchester VA...

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