Do I have to quarantine a new snake if they have no problems and mites.

[rabernet]

True Pit but snake mites are not native to the America's. You can't walk outside and bring them in from your yard. So, you would have to go to a place that was infested with them in order to bring them into your collection.

Star

Not necessarily. You can go to a pet store and hold one and not realize it has mites, hold it, put it back and bring hitch hikers home with you. You could go to a show and not see mites, yet bring them home with you. You could have friends who have snakes come over and bring them in.

It doesn't take an infestation somewhere to bring them into your home.

As to the OP, we had a member here once who said "I don't care if God himself handed me the snake, all new snakes go into QT"

It's not just mites that you worry about. Snakes raised in different environments have developed resistances to those environments, but not to yours yet. So they could bring in something that they are resistant to, but your collection is not and vice versa.

There have been far too many people who have lost or had to put down entire collections because they failed to quarantine and practice quarantine procedures (refused prey from QT's animals are disposed of and never offered to established collection, QT animals always handled and worked with last, then clothes stripped off and put in the laundry and owner takes a shower are just a few things that I do with my QT).