Quote Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion View Post
No, there is no clinical evidence that vitamin injections affect appetite, or do any good unless there is an actual vitamin deficiency (which seems pretty unlikely). For some reason, they remain an old standby 'treatment' among vets and human doctors alike. I think they want to feel like they're doing something, and imagine that this, at least, won't do any harm.

In your position, I would be very concerned that animals died IN SPITE of being treated. That simply shouldn't happen. If an RI is caught early, cultured, and treated with appropriate antibiotics, the animal should virtually always recover. If you lose any additional animals to RIs, it's crucial that you get an experienced reptile vet to do a necropsy.

An RI that does not respond to treatment with an appropriate antibiotic may simply not be a bacterial RI--it may be viral.

When you are cleaning, don't forget to clean the upper surfaces of the shelves--snakes will rub their faces all over those when in their bins.

If any snakes fall ill, quarantine them away from your collection immediately, in a separate room.

An occasional RI that clears up readily with a course of antibiotics is no big cause for concern, but a lot of them, and deaths, is a more serious situation.
Thank you for the added info. I do clean the tops of the racks with a vinegar based mutisurface cleaner everytime I clean. Kinda ocd with my cleaning. I have a seperate room just for quarintine but with this go round I have moved an additional rack into a closet as not to introduce the RI into the quarintine room. I have a few in there about to hit the 90 day mark and want to get them into my main collection without making them wait it out with these guys. As for losing my bee earlier this year to an RI I feel better versed on the subject now and sure it will not happen again. I made sure to insist on cultures this time and will certainly find a more qualified vet if this first round of antibiotics doesn't work. I've already gotten the info of areptile vet and will be seing him soon if I don't see improvent within the next 2 weeks or if they seem to get worse.