JJ....you should be able to know within two or three months if the snake has something. I personally think I would be able to tell in two months. I keep track of everything!!!! I use a program to record all urates, measurements, poo's, feedings and feeder weights. Anything out of the ordinary I document. This way you can see a pattern, you can see what the poo was like...etc. When handling my snakes....we handle the ones in our collection first....after that....then the one in Q. Also.....Qing in a different room is perfectly fine. Gosh I don't even have the ability to have a seperate house for Q. I just do it in a different room.

Don as far as IBD...wow this is such a question that I have been wondering for a long time.... for those of you that have boas AND pythons. I have always wondered since boas are carriers of this....and it CAN lie dormat.....how do you protect your pythons. ??? Are the boas ALWAYS Q'd from the pythons. Now don't get me wrong....I am not blasting anyone that keeps both. Just curious as to how they did it.