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I was wondering if anyone could help me...I recently aquired my first retic, a yearing het for albino male...He has got a fairly deliberate and docile temperment and is absolutely gorgeous....Last night when i fed him, as he struck and while eating, there seemed to be an excessive amount of "drool" or saliva from his mouth...My first worry was upper respirityory but I havent notcied any other signs...He was soaking all day before being fed...IS THIS NORMAL FOR THEM TO "DROOL" while eating...Ive never seen something like and have kept Burms, Boas and balls for years now...Any thoughts would be appreciated! THANX!

I notice a lot of times with my largest burm that when he's swallowing prey there's a good ammount of drool sometimes. He appears really healthy, I just always attributed it to the fact that the saliva helps with getting the rabbits down, and sometimes it just flows a little too much to keep in his mouth.
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1.0 8' albino burmese
1.0 14' normal burmese
1.0 4' normal retic
0.1.1 5' bcc
0.0.1 malaysian blood
0.0.1 nile monitor
3.0 cats
and a breeder rat colony

Saliva is a normal occurance however drool is not imo. Not to scare you or anything however, I would be very careful not to brush it off as ok. Often exessive saliva is a early sign of desieas, most notably mouthrot wich does take its toll on retics. I would recomend cleaning there mouths and there cages and furniture just in case. Also if the animal was drinking water recently this could be what you are witnessing. best of luck.

typically it's a quick single drip right as his stretched out unhinged mouth is trying to come back together, and the feet are still visible in the mouth before the throat muscles finally pull it all down. I'm pretty sure it's just a little excess saliva that was released to help slide the food down, but I guess I'll have it checked out this week when I take him to the vet. Thanks for the advice, I'll deffinately mention it while I'm there. As for the cleaning, I spend about one whole day, after breakfast until before bed, completely disinfecting all my snake cages every week, so I think that's taken care of, but you never can be too safe. He seems totally healthy otherwise, the only reason I'm taking "him" to the vet is that he's over 14 feet now and still growing steadily so I want to have a professional probe "him" to be sure. I know males can get that big, I just have a feeling he might not be what I was told he was. Compairing his spurs to my 8 foot albino seems to indicate he may be a she as well. I know my albino is male, and at 8 feet, his spurs are significatly larger than the 14 foot normal, but I want to be sure.
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1.0 8' albino burmese
1.0 14' normal burmese
1.0 4' normal retic
0.1.1 5' bcc
0.0.1 malaysian blood
0.0.1 nile monitor
3.0 cats
and a breeder rat colony

Ive talked to several other people about it and all seem to agree, it was the water that he was soaking in.........Thanks for the advice! : )