Quote Originally Posted by waltah! View Post
Quarantine means they are not even in the same part of the home. When cleaning and feeding the quarantined animals would be the last ones taken care of so as not to transfer to your established snakes. Many people will not even wear the same clothes after handling QT animals. Things like mites will transfer easily from across a room...very easily. You may not see signs of mites at the moment, but you can't see the eggs.
True. The thing is, I have no where else in my house to put snakes rather than in my room so I had no choice but to keep the new BP in my room. Things have been going good so far, I don't notice any diseases with that snake or my other snakes that I have in that room. I did notice a few mites on him, but I eliminated that problem in a week. I sprayed his enclosure with JurassiMite and rubbed it on his entire body with a towel. That stuff really seemed to work within 3-4 days. So I've only had my snake for a month, and I'm still watching for more mites so I have him on paper towels. He's been on paper towels for a few weeks, so far, I notice nothing on him or in the enclosure (and in the water dish). I check him daily for any mites underneath the scales and ones that could be running around on him but I haven't seen any. I don't see any mites on my other snakes either, as I have been checking them daily as well especially my other BP.