Well as you can see I'm back. I know I was gone for quite a while. I had a terrible loss happen to me.

I lost my whole collection to IBD

When I had a few of my boys up for sale a local woman contacted me and wanted to see the snakes that same day. She came by later that afternoon and held some of the snakes and the topic of care and her experience with BPs came up. She told me that he had a bp but it died. when I asked when she told me the day before and she took it to the vet right before she came to my place for biopsy. When I asked what the symptioms were I cringed. every thing she said pointed to IBD. I calmly took my snake from her and asked her to leave.

months later Angel was the first to go down hill. I had her and 2 others in quarinteen but it wasnt enough to stop them all from getting it. once Angel died, the rest shortly followed. tests came back positive for IBD and I dont think i will own another python or boa for as long as I live. I dont think I can go through that again.

Thanks for letting me get this out and I'm sorry if I dammpened the holiday mood for some of you.


(if this thread needs to go into off topic then move it... I didnt know where to put it. Thanks, Jess)