I'm trying my best to keep things as separate and 'quarantined' as I can with my new Pewter and doing the appropriate research in the process. I read the entire qt process thread and understand the reasons for everything except for the length of time people keep snakes QT'd for.

-A mite in the right temp. and with a host present will hatch in a day and be visible within a few days. They reach breeding size in ~30 days according to this mite life cycle I read.

-IBD normally onsets and makes itself known within 2 weeks but CAN lay dormant for... the snakes entire life?

-Respiratory Infections, again, usually onset and would be visible within a few days. I would speculate based on general knowledge of pathogens that it wouldn't likely lay dormant for more than 30 days.

-Sometimes a constipated snake can wait a while to poop.


So many people list having a QT setup for AT LEAST 90 days. I'm confused as to why? If a snake is on paper towels and not showing any signs of mites in any phase of their life cycle, it isn't showing IBD, it isn't showing an RI, and it poops and eats perfectly fine...

Why is it advised to extend that process 3 fold to 90 days? Is this literally just for the added security since some of you have a million snakes worth a million bucks? Did I miss something about any of the before mentioned reasons why we QT? I'm not challenging the accepted system, I'm just curious what the reasons are.