So, I was having a bit of a spat with someone over proper care for hatchlings and they happened to bring up splitting up clutches right after they leave their eggs due to the potential risk of littermates passing on diseases to one another. I'm aware that it is possible even among CB clutches but it's rare and personally, I'd still be willing to keep my clutches together until their first shed since that's the way I've been taught to do this and I honestly see no point in doing it any other way unless I will seriously be putting my animals at significant risk.

The person I was talking with said that clutches would be at risk for viruses, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections (which I've only heard about in WC babies or clutches that have had a significant amount of eggs go bad in them), and she also listed IBD which is about where I started raising my eyebrows and giving incredulous expressions. I've never heard of a BP clutch having any of it's members born with IBD and to a greater extent, I've never heard of it just randomly springing up in any clutch of any snake. Would anyone be willing to give me a good explanation on where or not IBD is at all prevalent in BP clutches or if that was mostly hot air.