Need Mite Help with Rack Please

[tttaylorrr]

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!

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!!!