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So just how common and how contagious IS IBD?
I just wanted to know a bit more about Inclusion Body Disease, because Ive heard so many terrible things about it, like it wiping out whole collections, and some python keepers refusing to keep boas at all because of it, etc. I mean, just exactly HOW common is it? I cant recall that many instances of it on here...and just HOW contagious is it?? When I think about those of us who use super strict quarantine practices, I also think about other things too, like shows. Yea, hand sanitizer is used and everything, but you cant help think about the thousands of boas and pythons kept in close proximity in the same large "room", along with many other species...even wild caught! I mean, those breeders that do shows, do they quarantine the for sale animals everytime they come home from shows??? A few of my friends vend at shows, and they vend at least once every other month, some every month! It just can be a little concerning but confusing at the same time. Is IBD the WORST disease/illness that could happen to a beautiful ball collection, or is there something else out there even worse? Idk...
ALL THAT SLITHERS - Ball Python aficionado/keeper
breeder of African soft fur Rats. Keeper of other small exotic mammals.
10 sugar gliders
2 tenrecs
5 jumping spiders
paludarium with fish
Brisingr the albino
Snowy the BEL
Piglet the albino conda hognose
FINALLY got my BEL,no longer breeding snakes. married to mechnut450..
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