Quote Originally Posted by rabernet View Post
In a sense - yes. You should come home from reptile shows and head straight for the shower and a change of clothes before you expose yourself to any of your collection.

And of course, if you take animals to any show if you're vending, it makes good common sense to quarantine your animals just as you would any new addition when they return from the show.

I was about to add the same.

I vend at UK shows and both my partner and I do the following when we get back from a show:

Any new animals get treated for mites and checked over then go into QT away from the main collection.

We shower and change clothes (you almost ALWAYS bring home mites when you spend all day at a show, sad but true, and I don't mean on your animals!)

We do not do any work with our collection for the rest of that day (ie no entry to the snake room and no feeding hatchlings.

Its far from perfect, but it's all we can do. We are home based hobbiest breeders, not blessed with two seperate facilities for QT and the main collection.

I think it is pretty obvious the OP underestimated entirely how seriously some keepers take it.

Couple all this with being very picky about who you buy from and what you buy from them, keeping the animals clean,well fed and watered and you protect yourself as best you can from the many bad things that can potentially harm your collection.