**facepalm**

So much for quarantine.

She looks good but please get into the habit of being suspicious and quarantining (sp?) all new animals away from your established collection for 30-90 days.

Suppose he had a lot of pythons but only has this one left because the others died of some horrible disease? Suppose the first sign of this is sudden weight loss - say a kilo in a couple of months and loss of appetite?

Not everyone is trustworthy enough to tell you this.

In these worst case scenarios you would have just put about $700 worth of animals in immediate danger of infection and, since they are breeding males, they will likely be exposed to most of your breeding females - which would then probably be exposed to your other breeding males and so on.

By the time you saw a problem with the first girl most of your adult snakes could have been compromised.

It's just not worth the risk and gets less worth it as your collection grows.


dr del