Thank you for posting here. Unfortunately posts in Facebook groups can be forever altered or deleted by the people who make them. Facebook also clobbers whole groups willy-nilly with little or no warning, which is why the original "FBI" group with years of valuable feedback on buyers, sellers, and scammers no longer exists.
Not everyone uses Facebook so for those who don't, and who can't log in to see the info at the link you posted, can you please clarify the following:
- Age/birth year, any history if known (e.g. proven breeder), etc. on each of the five snakes you purchased? Also do you know if these were snakes NERD had for a while and were selling because they had a better morph to put in its place, or if they were purchased to resell? I'm wondering if someone else didn't dump a positive collection on them.
- The five snakes from NERD were shipped together in one box and then you quarantined them together. After they arrived were any of them ever close to or quarantined with any other snakes? I know it's common for buyers to put new additions through quarantine with snakes already in quarantine, they just reset the quarantine clock when it happens.
- The timeline for all of this is in your Facebook link but not in your narrative above. Can you please tell us what date the snakes arrived, when the first snake started showing symptoms, date of the test, the date they were moved to a different location, etc?
Regarding the snakes you have that are positive but not showing symptoms, I will have to do some digging but I thought a few years back I read about a group of researchers doing work on IBD, nido, etc. in snakes and they were actively looking for animals that tested positive. I'll have to see if I can find who that was.
