ECLARK - mites

My Response;

Robin and a few others have accused me numerous times of not having any quarantine procedures in place, thats wrong and it is not true. I purchased some ball pythons from a big name breeder and was lulled into complacency thinking that there was no need to seperate this from the others for a period of time. I was very wrong about that and that will never happen again. :mad:

I had a small mite problem in a few tubs in a 20 unit baby rack that was quickly treated and completely eliminated!

I have produced 1000's of baby snakes and never had a problem with mites. 1 snake with mites and some of you are already calling me a bad guy.

Allison stated that I dont quarantine ALL the snakes that I buy to resell, I produce most of the snakes I sell. I do trade some of my high end Balls for lower priced Ball morphs that I dont breed to have a better selection of snakes to offer my customers......but Im rethinking that and more than likely will only be selling what I produce in the future.

April, I am sincerly sorry for sending you a snake with mites and it was not my intention to do so. :oops:

As in the past you can be confident that you will recieve a mite free snake from me! ;)

Crazydog, If you are calling me a bad guy.......Time to Dance!

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Originally Posted by CrazyDog

"Your input into this discussion will bear a lot more weight if you don't play games with Internet anonymity. Anyone can play such word games to make someone else look bad."

Understood, But if i have to put my name out there i'm going to put everything on the table. And post every e-mail that he sent me dealing with our little problem.

My problem was fixed. But to come on here and act like this was the first time is wrong.

Now if i have to dance i will!

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EXACTLY, let my guard down and it bit me in the ace!

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Originally Posted by Freakie_frog

Quarantine!!!!!

However breeders tend to gain a comfort level with one another and tend to have confidants in them. So they tend to just expect that they shouldn't have too. But it just goes to show you that you can never be to carefull.

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Everything is in seperate rooms. baby room, stuff for sale is another room and the main collection is like a no mans land. there is no way that if something like this happens that it could infect everything!

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Originally Posted by stangs13

But how many people have boughten from him without a complaint?! Hundreds! Maybe even thousands!! I still think he should separate, just becasue I am paranoid. Mike is a PRO!! He knows what he is doing.

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Robin and a few others have accused me numerous times of not having any quarantine procedures in place, thats wrong and it is not true.

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I purchased some ball pythons from a big name breeder and was lulled into complacency thinking that there was no need to seperate this from the others for a period of time.

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Maybe that is me and my English but isn't it contradictory.

One sentence you claim that you are falsely accused of not having quarantine, the other sentence you admit you did not quarantine those snakes.:confuzd:

Steve, it is common practice to ship more than 1 snake in a LARGE cloth bag. everyone has there own way of doing it, if you want to ship 1 to a bag.....dont criticise others for the way they do it.

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Originally Posted by SPJ

Well then I must be an amateur because I would NEVER send out a box with more than one snake per bag or deli cup and would be very ticked if I recieved animals that way no matter WHO sent them.

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Originally Posted by ECLARK

Crazydog, If you are calling me a bad guy.......Time to Dance!

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Crazydog - he just gave you his permission. I think if you are saying that you received mites from Ed, it is pertinent to this conversation, because it shows that this is not an isolated incident.

Ed, you still haven't answered why you told April you got mites from rats, but told the forum you got them from BHB?

Very strict quarantine procedures have ALWAYS been in place, if you reread my post it says I let my guard down on those snakes because I completly trusted the source and paid the price! I will never trust a snake from anyone after this.

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Originally Posted by GA_Ball_Pythons

Maybe that is me and my English but isn't it contradictory.

One sentence you claim that you are falsely accused of not having quarantine, the other sentence you admit you did not quarantine those snakes.:confuzd:

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Has anyone notified Brian Barczyk about this thread? He should at least have the option of replying to the implications that he is sending out mite infested snakes.

I told april that because that is what I believed at the time, not unheard of bringing in mites from live rodents from a pet shop. all it took was sliding out the tubs with the new snakes and seeing them with mites on them and talking to someone else that had just recieved snakes from the same source with mites.

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Originally Posted by rabernet

Crazydog - he just gave you his permission. I think if you are saying that you received mites from Ed, it is pertinent to this conversation, because it shows that this is not an isolated incident.

Ed, you still haven't answered why you told April you got mites from rats, but told the forum you got them from BHB?

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