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I honestly am puzzled why me KSB's sem to develop RI. I keep a good temp. gradient and a small water container as to not create excessive humidity in the tubs. Any ideas?
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Leland Shaver

What are your temps like? And are you using bottom heat? What's your humidity like?
Mark

I am using bottom heat on the adults and back heat on the babies.The probably is about 99 % with the adults. Just took a temp reading and the warm end was 91 and the cool end 84. I do not have individual humidity monitoring so I can't say on that part
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Leland Shaver

I keep my adults with a warm spot of ~98-100F. The cool end is in the upper 70's to low 80's. I keep the water dish on the cool end. You might want to bump the temps up a few degrees...see if it helps. What sort of substrate are you using?

-Chris
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Christopher E. Smith
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Aspen bedding. I also keep balls, Dumeril's, 1 BRB, and 1 Albino boa in the same room. The only problemis with the KSB's if this helps
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Leland Shaver

Are you sure it is RI?

Reason I ask is that I had some kingsnakes wheeze. Found out it was the bedding causing a reaction. Put them on newspaper and the problems went away.
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Mark

in some cases pretty sure but not so sure on others.What bedding caused the problem? I use aspen. Could it be starting out with a piece stuck in the mouth ? I have noticed sometimes the bottom jaw looks as if it has shrunken or receded a little. I welcome all comments on this from everyone!!! Thanks
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Leland Shaver

Could I be misdiagnosing a RI when it really is stomatitis caused by a piece of aspen stuck in the mouth ??? And the fact that some never recover is because I don't clean the mouth?
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Leland Shaver