Hello

i have an adult Atheris squamigera female since a few day she obens her mouth, especially when i spray water.
I think its a light lung inflammation (or something like that)
she eats and her behavior otherwise is normal.

Is there anything i can do against is?
Raise the temperature?

thanks
Michael

raise temperture and moist

Hello Michael,

I think you should not raise the moisture level at first! The open mouth breathing or throath puffing may be caused by Pseudomonas bacteria in respitatory organs and too much moisture and lack of proper ventilation usually makes it worse.
You should check your cage ventilation first and only spray your squamigera only around 1-2 times weekly, of course depending of ventilation.
Also, a little bit higher overall temperatures and stress free environment could help the situation.

Regards,
Ilkka

Hello, iim agree with Ilkka,moist is problematic in atheris squamigera especially... Keep the terarium dry (bowls of water is possible to squamigera) and vitamin C is very helpfull in this problems... Im also hits with pseudomonas bakteria in my squamigera and this time no problems.. Good luck...

I was at the vet. and he diagnosed Pseudomonas bacteria.
Now we wait for the result of theresistance test...
The snake is still in good condition, i hope everything will turn good!

Good luck, Michael. I hope she pulls through for you. I would also suggest keeping her very dry since that may help limit how the bacteria spreads. I'm surprised that your vet had to test the resistance. I thought that treating pseudomonas was pretty cut and dry with amikacin. Maybe it's a new culture or I'm just wrong? I've never had that particular bacteria, so I'm probably just wrong.

The result from the resistance test was that baytril will be the best against this kind of pseudomonas. Yesterday was the 7. day i gave her this medicine (injection).
Now it looks much better!
i hope she will survive.

My experience is that Marbocyl is better-toleratet than Baytril, but obviously it helps and thats the main point. An maybe they've tested it already.
Good luck further on!

Update:
The snakes is still in good condition she eat a mice 2 day ago.
i hope the "pseudomona desaster" is over...
soon i will post a picture...

Looking forward to it!
IMHO the squams are very photogenic - I love the scales so much.

Hope your squam makes it. Glad to hear she's getting better.

Thats great info Michael :-) Enjoy you healthy squamigera...
Post a photo please :-) All squams are beatiful for me... :-)

...Now im under pressure to take a photo,
i will do my very best!

thanks for the good whishes

Now THAT are fantastic news, Peter!
I did not know that You got some.
I am "gspannt wia a Pfitzipfeil" LOL (sorry non German speaking guys - there is no translation for that).

Here the pictures from my adult Atheris squamigera female that i have taken.

Very nice! I really love the Atheris ssp.

Wow, nice photos Michael. I'm glad she's doing better.

Hello all together

Some good news again!
She dropped 5 helathy little snakes 4 days ago!
4 more snakes are dead.
i didnt noticed that she was gravid, she eats all the time.

Good for you Michael.
She not only got better but delivered a bunch of healthy babies. Very nice.
Now if you could only share some baby pics...

That's a very happy ending to the story! Congrats Michael!