Quote Originally Posted by BPelizabeth View Post
JJ....you should be able to know within two or three months if the snake has something. I personally think I would be able to tell in two months. I keep track of everything!!!! I use a program to record all urates, measurements, poo's, feedings and feeder weights. Anything out of the ordinary I document. This way you can see a pattern, you can see what the poo was like...etc. When handling my snakes....we handle the ones in our collection first....after that....then the one in Q. Also.....Qing in a different room is perfectly fine. Gosh I don't even have the ability to have a seperate house for Q. I just do it in a different room.

Don as far as IBD...wow this is such a question that I have been wondering for a long time.... for those of you that have boas AND pythons. I have always wondered since boas are carriers of this....and it CAN lie dormat.....how do you protect your pythons. ??? Are the boas ALWAYS Q'd from the pythons. Now don't get me wrong....I am not blasting anyone that keeps both. Just curious as to how they did it.
Well I have both boas and balls. Long ago I had them in the same room but do to expansion, and the higher temps maintained in the Ball room we moved the boas out. We now have 1200 sq foot for boas and 900 sq feet for balls. Qt is in several different rooms. If it came from 2 different places it qts in different rooms.

Now as far as my practices on QTing. Boas that are under a year are qted for 3-6 months. 1-2 years old are qted for 6 months to a year. (yes I am super paranoid). Balls are qted for 2-3 months. Best part of this is if anything weird happens. The qt time starts over.

Long and short. I don't get much new each year. I tell people I am my own best customer.