Quote Originally Posted by TheSnakeGuy View Post
Your new snakes should probably go in the rack and the rack be kept on the other side of your reptile room or in a closet. Or the new ones kept in separate cages, again well away from the rack with your current two. Also you should not handle your old snakes after handling new ones without first sanitizing your hands. These are basic practices to keep all of your animals safe. There is a recent thread about someone bringing home one or two new snakes and putting them into an existing rack with others. Several days later they had 5 dead snakes. A harsh lesson about quarantining you don't want to learn first hand
I thought the five dead snakes turned out to be from the substrate...

Thanks for the tip, though. I've got two glass cages that'll be on the opposite side of the room from my rack. The three will go in the rack and my current two will stay in the cages for the time being. I've got a bottle of GermX right next to my cages, always sanitize before and after I handle them. I read somewhere that reptiles can carry salmonella on their skin, don't want to get sick or get them sick from something I've got on my hands.