Re: Need Mite Help with Rack Please
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Originally Posted by
bcartervol98
Question about Quarantine: If I am putting all my animals in the snake room where no other snakes are housed and all are bought within a 60-90 day window am I not properly quarantining? What am I missing? I am not introducing new animals in a room with established animals I am putting all new animals in there. Honest question not trying to come off bad just curious how what I am doing is different than a best practice. I have thick skin you don't have to sugar coat it.
Thank you!
a fair question, and ill try my best! [emoji3]
i have never purchased large quantities of snakes such as you (i own 6 balls and 1 corn); the most beeps i've ever had in QT at the same time was 2 (a couple months back and again just a few weeks ago). you true-blood breeders on here please correct me if i mess this up lol.
each group of snakes bought from a breeder should be quarantined separately. if you got a group of snakes from the same facility, then you can quarantine those together. since you bought from multiple breeders and did not quarantine them like this, how can you know which breeder had mites? if i sold a snake with mites i would want to know ASAP. and what happens if a snake passes away? since you don't know where the mites came from, no breeder is going to cut you some slack and offer you a refund or another animal since you did not take the precautions yourself (it happens). with quarantine this way: it keeps you more aware of any possible health situations and a way to keep the breeder honest.
i bought a beep from one of the most respected breeders of this forum, and that girl absolutely went straight into QT. idc if Gosh himself hands me the snake, it goes into QT.
now, i don't have the space for a true and proper QT; they're all housed in one room. this is absolutely not ideal but i do my best. no QT snake gets handled the same day as everyone else, and QT animals are fed last and equipment gets washed after. my QT animals are in stand-alone tubs on separate levels on the opposite side of the room and get moved into the rack once they graduate after 90 days.
my collection is small, and this works for me.
sorry for the ramble, but i hope i helped some!!! [emoji4]
Re: Need Mite Help with Rack Please
To me quarantine is isolation from any other animal. Not just tanks, or rack but in a totally separate room. If you are a week or two into the 30 day treatment and you bring in another new animal that is basically making you start the 30 day treatment all over again. Each new animal is a potential host.
I've had several times where a new animal was brought in with no signs of mites but after two weeks in quarantine then they start appear but only sporadically. If I bring in two animals in a close time frame then they are both kept separate from each other (while in quarantine) and from the rest of my snakes. Even if two snakes come from the same breeder they are still quarantined separate. You never know if someone may have handled the one of the snakes at a show and transferred mites. It's a whole lot easier to treat a single animal that is still in quarantine than it is to treat a whole room full of snakes.
Re: Need Mite Help with Rack Please
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Originally Posted by
bcr229
I would suggest you read this and take it to heart as there are diseases out there that will rip through your collection and kill every snake you own in a matter of weeks:
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...antine-process
Second, read my post #13 at
https://ball-pythons.net/forums/show...e-boa!!!/page2
Third, you need to understand that things have change a LOT in the herp industry in just the past few years. Between internet forums and Facebook there is a lot more information available on proper keeping and veterinary care. Discerning buyers also note who the best-of-the-best sellers are; who has ever shipped sick animals or ones with mites, who quarantines, who is willing to buy from the less-than-reputable or downright criminals in the industry, etc.
Personally I would wave-off shipment of any new snakes until you have the mite problem under control, even if you have to pay their current keepers "board" to hang onto them until your current animals have been cleared. Then, you don't receive any new ones until you can properly quarantine them away from your clean critters.
Yes this puts limits on how many critters you can purchase in a given year, but that also makes you a much more picky buyer with higher-quality, healthy critters in the long run.
Nailed it! Great post.
