Lock them up..

..and throw away the key! :taz:

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You have had him for 90 days??:O

I knew the guy that he came from. He had him for.. about, 8 years.

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I knew the guy that he came from. He had him for.. about, 8 years.

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I know Adam and Ralph.... 90 days is 90 days!

Not quarantining because you know whom you purchase the snake from is like playing with fire and sooner or later you will get burn.

I don’t care whom I get a snake from; the quarantine will be the same whether it is from Joe Schmoe, 8 Ball, RDR or Nerd.

Breeding in a hurry is not worth jeopardizing my collection but that’s me.

I hope everything turns out ok for you.

I gave him 30 days here. He tested clean for internal parasites, and there are definately no externals showing up. I don't know of anything that would have kept still for this long in his former home, that would suddenly cause a catastrophe now if I do not wait a few more weeks. If he were small and still growing, or thin, or too overfat, those would have been issues to me, to not breed him.
My husband saw him and looked him over well over 60 days ago at their place, and he was healthy then.. honestly, not to be sarcastic, but what reason in this situation would there have been to wait longer? Are there specific diseases that take 60-90 days to surface in a new home? I would like to know.. I am really not trying to be a snot here, and I am just doing what I feel is safe and right.
Come on, it is not like I went to some stranger's place and grabbed a WC that was loaded with internals, and ticks, and tossed it in with my 100g male.

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I gave him 30 days here. He tested clean for internal parasites, and there are definately no externals showing up. I don't know of anything that would have kept still for this long in his former home, that would suddenly cause a catastrophe now if I do not wait a few more weeks. If he were small and still growing, or thin, or too overfat, those would have been issues to me, to not breed him.
My husband saw him and looked him over well over 60 days ago at their place, and he was healthy then.. honestly, not to be sarcastic, but what reason in this situation would there have been to wait longer? Are there specific diseases that take 60-90 days to surface in a new home? I would like to know.. I am really not trying to be a snot here, and I am just doing what I feel is safe and right.
Come on, it is not like I went to some stranger's place and grabbed a WC that was loaded with internals, and ticks, and tossed it in with my 100g male.

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200g males, Hun:D

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I gave him 30 days here. He tested clean for internal parasites, and there are definately no externals showing up. I don't know of anything that would have kept still for this long in his former home, that would suddenly cause a catastrophe now if I do not wait a few more weeks. If he were small and still growing, or thin, or too overfat, those would have been issues to me, to not breed him.
My husband saw him and looked him over well over 60 days ago at their place, and he was healthy then.. honestly, not to be sarcastic, but what reason in this situation would there have been to wait longer? Are there specific diseases that take 60-90 days to surface in a new home? I would like to know.. I am really not trying to be a snot here, and I am just doing what I feel is safe and right.
Come on, it is not like I went to some stranger's place and grabbed a WC that was loaded with internals, and ticks, and tossed it in with my 100g male.

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The issue is that as a breeder you are not taking the proper precautions with your collection and therefore are ruining your reputation as a high quality breeder before it ever starts. But in the end what you do with your collection is your choice...just understand when a buyer starts researching you about a potential purchase this will come up.

Who says that if you do not wait 60 days, your snakes will crumple up and die? I have a clean, healthy, adult male here that I observed and kept in quarantine for 30 days in my own home, with no negative effects observed. Someone could QT their snake for a few months without getting a proper fecel done on it, and it could have internals. But oh, they quarantined it and it is still alive, so it must be ok?
Again. What diseases would not have manifested themselves yet, but would have if I had waited another 4 weeks.

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Who says that if you do not wait 60 days, your snakes will crumple up and die? I have a clean, healthy, adult male here that I observed and kept in quarantine for 30 days in my own home, with no negative effects observed. Someone could QT their snake for a few months without getting a proper fecel done on it, and it could have internals. But oh, they quarantined it and it is still alive, so it must be ok?
Again. What diseases would not have manifested themselves yet, but would have if I had waited another 4 weeks.

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You have sick snakes in your collection (one or more have died) how do you know that the act of breeding won't set off some delayed infection in this animal that came out of QT too soon? Again what you do is your choice...but potential buyers will judge you by it.