Ailments that can affect clutches?

[MisterKyte]

So, I was having a bit of a spat with someone over proper care for hatchlings and they happened to bring up splitting up clutches right after they leave their eggs due to the potential risk of littermates passing on diseases to one another. I'm aware that it is possible even among CB clutches but it's rare and personally, I'd still be willing to keep my clutches together until their first shed since that's the way I've been taught to do this and I honestly see no point in doing it any other way unless I will seriously be putting my animals at significant risk.

The person I was talking with said that clutches would be at risk for viruses, bacterial, fungal, and parasitic infections (which I've only heard about in WC babies or clutches that have had a significant amount of eggs go bad in them), and she also listed IBD which is about where I started raising my eyebrows and giving incredulous expressions. I've never heard of a BP clutch having any of it's members born with IBD and to a greater extent, I've never heard of it just randomly springing up in any clutch of any snake. Would anyone be willing to give me a good explanation on where or not IBD is at all prevalent in BP clutches or if that was mostly hot air.

[OhhWatALoser]

well lets think about this logically for half a second, how could clutch mates pass these viruses and diseases, if they don't exist in the box in the first place? They have to be exposed to something to get something. I guess rotting eggs could make some bad stuff grow, but the clutch being together isn't your problem.

personally I separate them, just because it's easier for me and how i've always done it. I see no reason why you can't keep them together until their first shed, many people, if not most people do it that way.

[MisterKyte]

well lets think about this logically for half a second, how could clutch mates pass these viruses and diseases, if they don't exist in the box in the first place? They have to be exposed to something to get something. I guess rotting eggs could make some bad stuff grow, but the clutch being together isn't your problem.

personally I separate them, just because it's easier for me and how i've always done it. I see no reason why you can't keep them together until their first shed, many people, if not most people do it that way.

See, I was having a very similar thought process to this and wasn't really buying it when this was brought up in my prior conversation. It defies logic but regardless, I always try to find second opinions when it comes to these kinds of things.