I know this topic is on here and I've read every thread I could find on RI's and I'm not trying to treat it myself. I've battled them before and lost a beautiful bee to it even with antibiotics and vet visits. I don't understand how they got it. I've got two males (my cinnamon and het pied) neither was used for breeding this year (cinnamon was to small and het pied female wasnt up to weight yet) They were in the same rack one above the other (counting top to bottom slots 6 and 7 out of 10). The cinnamon is still eating weekly but not as aggressively as he used to. and the het pied hasn't eaten in about 2 months I wrote this off as I had females nearby producing follicals. I am almost ocd with my cleaning. I use hand sanitizer between every animal. deep cleaning: I swap out 5 tubs every wednesday. 10% bleach water, spray, scrub, rinse with hot water, dry, spray with lysol, let sit 24hrs, wash with dawn and water, dry and sit until the following wednesday.
Spot cleaning: Spray with vinegar based multisurface cleaner, wipe clean, dry with paper towel, wipe spot with rubbing alchol let air dry for 10min while I give it (bp) a quick wipe down with a wet warm paper towel and just enjoy holding my pet. My leopard geckos are in a different room as are my breeder rats and mice. The humidity is always between 55% and 65% the hot spot is 90 - 92 cool end has never droped below 79 ambient air temp is near 83 -\+ 2 my husbandry is spot on to the best of my knowledge. if not please speak up. so I really dont understand how they are showing signs of an RI. I have a strict qt proceedure and havent introduced any new animals into the room that they were in since october of 2011. None of the others in that rack or others are showing any signs. I just dont understand how They could have contracted an RI. they havent been rearranged or stressed more than regular cleaning, feeding, and the occasional holding while waiting for tubs to dry. Please if anyone can enlighten me please do so. I have a vet appointment tomorrow afternoon. getting throat cultures and antibotics planned. The two in question have been moved to a closet for qt. as I don't want to put them in my qt room and run the risk of infecting the ones that are nearly ready to go into the main collection. IDK if there's a real question in this thread but just had to vent. I just don't understand how these things happen. Guess thats the Q. How does this happen with all the precautions I take and how is it just these two males are ill and the rest are fine? I'll let you all know when I get the cultures back and what antibiotics the vet prescribes. Thanks all