Quote Originally Posted by Maddumpling View Post
I also ask this question because there are some who have qt racks, but to me it doesnt seem like a quarantine because you are risking your other snakes in the qt rack.
This is an excellent point. And I've heard it said that if you bring a new animal into your QT collection, then the countdown for QT starts over again for all of them. Which sounds fine in theory...and might work if you only add a new animal once in a blue moon. But if you're buying a new animal every month? Every week?



I don't know. I don't know how the "big" breeders do it. I'm sure there comes a point when everyone has to balance out the choices between going to all the trouble of PROPER QT...and accepting some risk of contamination. As mentioned...if you're buying from a deeply trusted source, then your risk is probably minimal to begin with.

But how many buy ONLY from a source that deeply trusted? I'm sure I don't know. All I know is I can only control my own risks. It gets too messy trying to worry about what everyone else is doing or not doing.