Why 3 months of quarantine?

[jjsnakedude]

I dont get why you have to do 3 months of quarantine from balls to balls. I mean are there any diseases that pop up in 2 1/2 months? I just dont get why you have to do it. I dont think your going to go really healthy for 2 months and then BAM! theres mites or RI or IBD. RI can happen in the established collection too. Im probably going to get bashed but I just want to know.

[Freakie_frog]

I QT of 60 days.. not 90..but it's simply to make good and sure that there aren't any little nasties going to pop up..

[Kaorte]

When you have a big collection like some people do, quarantine is essential. If a snake happens to come in with some sort of fatal disease, you definitely don't want the rest of your snakes getting it. Its really just a precaution. You never know, something could pop up. I know IBD has a pretty long time period before it kills a ball python around 1-2 months?

[steveboos]

Yeah i do it only for being far more safe than sorry and the bigger the collection, the bigger the risk. When i start to have 40 or 50 snakes, you bet i'm going to quarantine for 2 months. Right now its around 3-4 weeks, but i only have 5 snakes. I really feel quarantine is essential and its a really good habit to get in to.

[MJVbps]

The way I see it, if I'm going to go through the trouble to set up a quarantine rack/cage, then I'm going to keep them in there as long as I can.

[jjsnakedude]

Yeah i do it only for being far more safe than sorry and the bigger the collection, the bigger the risk. When i start to have 40 or 50 snakes, you bet i'm going to quarantine for 2 months. Right now its around 3-4 weeks, but i only have 5 snakes. I really feel quarantine is essential and its a really good habit to get in to.

Why do you only do about a month?
I only have 2 snakes (for know). They have been quarantined for a month and nothing bad from any of the two. Would it be ok to put them in the same rack?

[steveboos]

Why do you only do about a month?
I only have 2 snakes (for know). They have been quarantined for a month and nothing bad from any of the two. Would it be ok to put them in the same rack?

Well i'm my situation 80% of my animals are from the same person, so i quarantine them depending on who i get them from. The one i just got is very healthy and from a very good breeder, so he is ok in my books. I never do less than 3 weeks though, just because sometimes it does take longer, especially if its a rescue or something, then its about 2 months.

[BPelizabeth]

with the money that some of these ppl have invested with snakes....oye. One wrong move and you could wipe out a 20K snake. That is almost the price of my car.

I only have little more than 2K invested in so far...that includes the snakes and all the stuff for them. However if I was to bring something in and it killed my collection. OYE...I would be devastated...not to mention....my child would probably divorce me...lol.

It is better to be safe than sorry. The scariest thing to me with new snakes are....were they around boa's. They say that IBD can lay dormat in boas for years....or even the boa can be a carrier.

And imagine the $$ it would cost if your new snake had a parasite....and all of them got it.

[CoolioTiffany]

Quarantining is just a precaution in case the new snake has any diseases or parasites. Like stated before, once you get a larger collection you need to be getting in the habbit of quarantining because it is easily for a disease to pass from snake to snake. People have had their whole collections wiped out because they didn't quarantine. A disease like IBD is untreatable and fatal so you definitely wouldn't want that spreading in your collection, so whenever I get a python or boa I always keep it away from my established collection for a certain amount of months until I feel it's safe enough to introduce it to my established collection.

I always watch and check the new snakes for the entire quarantining process so I can spot certain things like RI, IBD, mites, ticks, odd behavior, etc. just in case. When my Kingsnake got RI I immediately moved it out of my room into a different room to be quarantined. He is still in my quarantine room, never really thought of moving him. I have my two newest snakes (Blood pythons) I got on Saturday in the quarantine room right now, and I'm checking their water dishes daily for any drowned mites and I'm trying to take them out of their enclosure to see if their skin twitches or if I see mites crawling around on them.

I normally quarantine for two months, rarely ever one month. I just moved my Beardie into my room with my established collection to get her out of the quarantine room. She's been in there since November 14, and I feel it's safe to let her in with my established collection.

[jjsnakedude]

with the money that some of these ppl have invested with snakes....oye. One wrong move and you could wipe out a 20K snake. That is almost the price of my car.

I only have little more than 2K invested in so far...that includes the snakes and all the stuff for them. However if I was to bring something in and it killed my collection. OYE...I would be devastated...not to mention....my child would probably divorce me...lol.

It is better to be safe than sorry. The scariest thing to me with new snakes are....were they around boa's. They say that IBD can lay dormat in boas for years....or even the boa can be a carrier.

And imagine the $$ it would cost if your new snake had a parasite....and all of them got it.

But you could have waited 3 months and mabey there was still a parasite in it and then all your other snakes got it.