Metcalf Reptiles Knowingly Shipped My SD Retics With Mites!!!

[Aedryan Methyus]

Thanks, L. West. And, yes, I am most definitely livid! I just can't even fathom that someone would just go right ahead and ship animals out to someone KNOWING that they are sending them a box of mites! I will definitely be dealing with Aaron Metcalf later on and letting people know about his business practices!

With regards to quarantine, 3/4 of the animals I currently have were purchased around the same time, so they would have all been sitting in quarantine together anyway. Aside from that, like I said, setting up a quarantine is way easier said than done unless you live in a warm, humid part of the world like Florida. Firstly, it is already costing me a fortune to control ambient room temperatures and humidity in one room of my house for my animals. My house is extremely dry in the winter, so I have to keep my heater vent closed in the snake room and run a space heater as well as a high output humidifier 24/7 all winter long. To do that in two rooms, it would probably run my electric bill up $300.00 - $400.00 a month. I love my animals to death and there isn't much I wouldn't do for them, but that just wouldn't be feasible or sensible in any way. Even if I set up a quarantine in another room and left the heater vents open, my thermostat in my house will never be set above 70 degrees, so how would I be able to keep the animal's cool side temperatures above 75 degrees? As far as humidity, i'm a firm believer of not using substrate for many reasons. I could use it for quarantined animals temporarily to help with humidity, but my house gets so dry in the winter that I think it would still be extremely challenging to keep humidity levels consistent. So, in a nutshell, I feel like unless people are able to properly heat, humidify and dedicate a whole second room to a quarantine, they are going to be running a very high risk of quarantined animals getting RIs and having digestive problems and everything else. So, it's sort of a catch 22 situation... All of the closets in my house are very shallow, so I wouldn't even be able to keep adequate size tubs in them. So, that isn't an option either. If anyone can think of a realistic way for me to setup a quarantine in this dry old house that isn't going to cause health problems to the animals or cost me another couple hundred dollars for another heater and humidifier (in addition to more thermostats) or run my electric bill up another couple hundred dollars per month I would definitely love to hear your ideas...