Why 3 months of quarantine?

[jjsnakedude]

I hate to break this to you guys, but paramyxovirus has an incubation period of up to ten months.

This information has caused me to revise my own quarantine procedure. It may be inconvenient, but it's crazy to only quarantine animals for 3 months when they could be harboring a disease with 30% or more kill rate, even with good supportive treatment.

I think people are much too quick to rush animals out of quarantine--usually to breed them, or for the space, etc. There's nothing that says you can't breed your quarantine group to each other, in quarantine. It's not worth exposing the rest of your collection.

Consider this--if someone gets a snake, quarantines it for 3 months, and then a month later decides to sell it, they sell it to you, you quarantine it for 3 months, it COULD STILL FALL ILL 3 months after you put it with the rest of your collection. The guy you bought it from never knew.

NOT worth the risk.

what the Heck is that?!? Do you say we are going to have to quarantine them for almost a year? That sounds crazy.