We just moved our new rescue beardie into a five foot, so I disinfected his four foot and put my young Ball Python in yesterday.

What the vets didn't mention was that it's very likely said rescue has ADV, which is apparently passable to snakes, even if you have disinfected everything. There's no point moving the BP back into her old viv, since if she's gonna catch it she'd have it already.


We're gonna send in a fecal sample, but in the meantime what I'm wanting to know is what signs should I be looking for? I'm assuming blood in her poo would be one, since it's happening to the rescue. How long would she have to live if she did catch it?


There's still a small possibility the rescue doesn't have it, and even then I've been told that snakes tend to be more hardy with things like this, but I'd like to be prepared for the worst case scenario. (We'll also be changing vets)