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Hey all, I have a corn snake (miami phase) seems to make a coughing kind of sound while opening his mouth. It's pretty young, it's not aggressive at all. I've hand tamed it pretty good. I dont see any boubles or anything around the mouth, temps are 80- 85 on the high side 70 ish on the cool side of the cage. he seems like he's adjusting his jaw. Is familiar to anyone?
thanks
eric

bubbles (sorry)

>>Hey all, I have a corn snake (miami phase) seems to make a coughing kind of sound while opening his mouth. It's pretty young, it's not aggressive at all. I've hand tamed it pretty good. I dont see any boubles or anything around the mouth, temps are 80- 85 on the high side 70 ish on the cool side of the cage. he seems like he's adjusting his jaw. Is familiar to anyone?
>>thanks
>>eric

Have him checked for lungworm. I had a kingsnake earlier this year who began coughing, then spewing stringy white fluid. Turned out to be lungworm-which can kill your snake if left untreated.

It is also highly contagious-good thing I had my kingsnake in a completely separate room of my house from my other snakes.

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i would not disregard the previous advice. but sometimes one of my corns does somethign similar to this - and it happens when he somehow stupidly gets substrate in his mouth and it takes him a while to get it out or i guess just swallows it. i dont know ive never watched him long enough see how he takes care of it. but it never lasts for much more than a day. so if this is a prolonged problem them its probably not that.