Quote Originally Posted by Neal View Post
Quarantine is to protect your current snakes from anything the new snake could possibly have. You are suposoto use 2 different rooms, as it would be a lot harder for certain stuff to travel that far, and likely to die en route. As far as carrying germs on clothes or flesh, that's why you wash your hands after dealing with them, and the chances of it being airborn are likely to none.

For example mites, if you keep them in the same room, good chance they will get transferred, if you keep them in seperate rooms, that chance goes way way way down. Unless you don't wash your hands and stuff aswell as take the necessary precautions to preventing.
I see. As for the mites thing. I know that you can usually see them is the snake. I have never had to deal with them but have seem pictures before.

My question is: are mites always visible? If so is it okay to quarantine a snake in the same room as another if it is the only way anf you see no mites on new snake?

My 500r is my room next to my snakes. If I get another it need to be near the 500r or it will get too hot for the snake I get.