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    Whats your quarantine process?

    Im just curious what everybody's quarantine process is when you aquire new snakes. And how long do you keep them in QT?

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    1. Separate room in a different area of the facility
    2. Separate supplies including tongs, spray bottles, paper, etc.
    3. 3 months quarantine. If there are animals in quarantine and I bring in new animals, the 3 months restart.
    4. I treat the tubs for all new snakes with Provent A Mite and check each snake over thoroughly before putting them in.
    5. If a live rat/mouse is uneaten by a quarantine animal it stays in the room to be offered again to the same animal. If a FT rat/mouse is refused, it is thrown out.

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    To add to Jamie's procedures - I also work with the QT animals last. Established colony first, QT last. Once I've worked with QT animals, I don't go back to the established colony unless I have showered and changed clothes, but preferably not at all on the same day.

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    I'm doing what's being done in the posts above, though I don't have a separate part of the facility, only a separate part of the house. I have 3 different Q areas, all cut off from the main house air supply system as best I can so that air isn't shared. Unfortunately, there's no such thing as a true quarantine when you're in a house, you just do the best you can. I take care of the established animals first, then move on down the line to the newest ones, changing clothes in between and scrubbing up any exposed skin both before and after. "Dirty" clothes go into plastic bags and straight to the washing machine. Quarantine period is 60 days here. I wouldn't hesitate to do 90 if the animal came from a questionable background or an iffy source. Physical and fecal exams will be done as soon as is possible, and before the animal is released into the main collection room.

    I also do something similar when going to any place that has reptiles, such as a pet store or show, etc. All clothes go straight to the washer and I go right to the shower before getting near any of my animals. I also have a separate pair of shoes just for things like that, they're never brought into the house.
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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    Quote Originally Posted by Mochelem View Post
    Im just curious what everybody's quarantine process is when you aquire new snakes. And how long do you keep them in QT?
    What perfect timing! The staff was just discussing how we'd like to start this discussion, gather input from the experienced membership and then develop a sticky on quarantine procedures for the home hobbyist/small breeder. Thanks so much Mochelem for posting these questions and starting the ball rolling.

    Here's what my family does as far as QT. We do have special considerations here because we do take in snakes to board/foster, do the occasional rescue, etc. We also keep a mixed collection of boas, pythons and colubrids which adds it's own issues in due to disease transmission with different snake species.

    1. Established ball python collection first
    2. Established boas and colubrid next
    3. Snakes in QT last
    4. Sit down, pour a coffee and wonder why in heck you have this many snakes!

    Our QT is on another floor of the house, the snakes there have all their own equipment (big deal really...some tongs...prey containers...hand sanitizer, etc.). I store all their supplies (clean tubs ready for use, etc.) in a big walk-in upstairs not in our BP room downstairs. We don't share prey between QT and established collection snakes.

    Nobody visiting gets to see or touch the snakes in QT, we don't even really encourage our children to go near those snakes - it's not like we don't have enough snakes they can mess with LOL. If you visit and want to see a snake currently in QT, you're welcome to return and visit once it leaves QT.

    If another snake enters QT, then we reset the QT "clock" back to day 1 for every snake in there.

    Every snake goes to QT first. I don't care if you are God and you breed ball pythons for fun and profit, your snake is going into QT.

    All snakes in QT, no matter how many weeks they are there, do not leave QT until they are healthy and have eaten at least 4 consecutive times without any issues or problems. Even if they've reached the number of days in QT, if they aren't eating, they stay put till they are.

    Once we learned of more about health issues with boas and pythons in mixed collections we permanently seperated them so they now exist in different rooms, on different levels in our home and are on different day handling times. We've been doing that seperation of species for a couple of years now.

    We have a some basic rules in this house and if you want to handle a snake, you follow them to the letter. You touch the snakes, you go scrub well afterwards. If you own snakes, and any of your snakes are currently ill, you are welcome to visit but can't enter the BP room or handle any of our snakes.

    If we visit a snake show or a pet store, we change and wash when we get home before handling anything in our collection. I carry gel hand sanitizer in my purse at every show to use between handling snakes from different tables (most tables offer it but I bring my own anyways).

    Tubs/hides/water dishes aren't reused even between snakes in the same collection until they are soaked in 10% bleach water then scrubbed and rinsed.

    For me QT isn't just about bringing a snake in, it's about a day to day routine really and for all it seems a lot when it's typed out, it really isn't. I'm a busy wife and mom with other pets and just under 50 snakes to manage. If it took huge chunks of time or required a degree in microbiology, I couldn't manage it. It doesn't and it's something anyone can do in a home situation. If you can't or won't bother, then perhaps it's time to rethink continuing to add snakes to your collection.
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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    Wow, reading all of this makes me re-think my QT process. I'm surprised I have any snakes alive at all anymore!!!

    Excellent info
    Too many snakes to be declared "sane" as far as my friends are concerned....

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    I have done most of these things for my QT process, just not to the extent that was talked about above. I never thought about the feeding tongs that I use, I guess I need to pick some of those up!! Also I wash and disinfect my hands between QT but I never thought about my clothes!

    Luckily Ive never had any problems, Ive been lucky enough to never have bought a sick snake, I have 2 new additions coming in the mail tommorrow and I just wanted to make sure Im doing enough to QT them..

    Thx for all the input!!

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    Quote Originally Posted by kid_mustango02 View Post
    Wow, reading all of this makes me re-think my QT process. I'm surprised I have any snakes alive at all anymore!!!

    Excellent info
    I feel the same way... Im going to hell Im sure.

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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    *QT is 60 days minimum (usually 90) upstairs in the spare bedroom (the snake room is downstairs in the basement)
    *Each room has it’s own supply which is cleaned separately \
    *All new addition as well as establish collection get treated with PAM
    *Un-eaten prey from snakes in QT are kept separately and only offered to snakes in QT
    *I always work with my establish collection first and than work with the snake in QT
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    Re: Whats your quarantine process?

    Another thing I'd like out of this thread is the threats we're looking out for which could take 90 days to start showing. I realize I'm doing a semi-QT process, but dont really know why
    Too many snakes to be declared "sane" as far as my friends are concerned....

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