[GarterGuy]

Sometimes snakes will just do that....not sure of any real reason for it. It could be though because she's having some difficulties with what the respitory condition she's got. I've seen snakes before that would "gape", because they were having respitory problems. I know I'm not a vet, but I have treated snakes that had respirtory problems with Baytril (it's a common antibiotic use by vets)...I'm not sure of the dosages right now(it's been over 10yrs. since I've had to treat anything for it, so just don't have it laying around, readily available right now), but this might be something that you could do through a vet that doesn't specifically work with reptiles. It would just be matter of getting them to prescribe you some of it to use, until your herp vet gets back from vacation. If I can find the dosage rates or if someone else knows them, I think this might be something to take a look at. Respitory infections can usually be treated fairly successfully, but at the same time you can loose a snake to them if it ends up turning into something like severe pneumonia.
Roy