Quote Originally Posted by xFenrir View Post
Not trying to start anything, but like I said, just because there are no signs doesn't mean they aren't carrying anything. The scary disease everyone talks about, IBD, can take YEARS to manifest signs, and sometimes it never shows signs at all. It's just something to consider, I wouldn't want you to lose your first one because of new ones.
I agree that quarantine is important, but no one is going to quarantine their snakes for years. It would be almost impossible to move anything out of quarantine because you need to reset the quarantine clock when you add a new snake to quarantine. So the fact that IBD can take years to manifest is moot in this argument. Things like internal parasites would be a much better quarantine argument, or something else that can take weeks to present itself. Most people quarantine for 60-90 days, not years.