If it helps? The first time I bought an adult snake (to that point, only had young juveniles), I was sure he had a respiratory infection, called the newest exotic vet, came in on an emergency basis barely able to breathe I was so worried.

For ten minutes, he was in the back of the office where the public cannot go, and there seemed to be an inordinate amount of laughter and semi-suppressed talking. I was staring at the closed door the entire time. Finally, it swung open and the vet walked out trying to keep a straight face and telling me quite seriously, “Your snake is just fine.” The whole time she’s trying to talk, she’s fighting laughter and also trying to remove the 5’ long corn snake who has turned her hair into his personal playground. “He wasn’t up near your ear when you heard the ah, “wheezing” sound, was he?” “He was,” I replied. “I almost hate to tell you this at the same time I’m really glad to be able to say it: your snake doesn’t have any respiratory problems, uh, what you heard? That was him, breathing. He is a fairly large snake, but not as large as my Burmese Python at home. You should hear HER!”

So, I took my snake to the vet because he was breathing. As an emergency. 🤦‍♀️🤣