My Seond New Bp...

[midnite_316]

hey everyone.. This is a Female she was born in Aug 05'.. I just got her like a hour ago ..I try to take a good pics of her but she strike at the webcam but I got one good pic of her.. in the second pic she the long one on the left side and on the right is cloud.. but for some how cloud look fat then her maybe because I power feed cloud ...I'm going to name her Storm..she look pretty..I might have to get her to get use to pick up it don't feel like she been pick up or she just scary...

[The Cannibal Monkey]

Wow she is very pretty! Good luck getting her to calm down

[Melicious]

ABSOLUTELY adorable. I swear, no matter how many times I see those cute little faces I squirm with excitement. Balls have such adorable faces, and she's no different.

Storm's a cute name, by the way...

[tigerlily]

ummm....

What about a quarantine period?

[jglass38]

That would be an idea!

[cassandra]

Midnight may not know about the practice of quarantine. =)

Generally, herpers will quarantine or house the new snake in a seperate room for generally 3 months. This quarantine period is used to verify that the new animal does not have any parasites it may spread to your already established snakes.

For example, I added a boa constrictor to my snake collection and have been quarantining her in another room away from my established ball python. Six weeks into the quarantine period, she turned out to have mites! I was able to eliminate the mites from my boa without the mites spreading to my ball python.

[elevatethis]

Maybe I've just been lucky, but I've only had to deal with mites once and each new snake I get goes into an enclosure thats just been blasted with Provent-a-mite...I would think that basic sanitary practices (throwing away paper towels, using the right cleaning agents, bleaching water bowls frequently, etc) would prevent things like internal parasites or bacteria from spreading around. I've heard of things like RI spreading through water bowls, and have never heard it would just spread through the air. Your hands are another issue, make sure you wash them in between handling new additions and the rest of the collection. I don't have a huge collection though, so having an outbreak of something would be much less severe than for someone who had hundreds of animals.

[midnite_316]

Oh did not know that the new snake is in my bed room and Cloud is in a diff room with the new set up..I don't know much about mites.I al I know is that is I see one I just clean the tub and the tank...

[elevatethis]

Are you saying that you've seen mites in your tanks? For every one that you see, there's 100 other little bastards crawling around that you don't see.

Look over your BP for mites. They are usually easily seen in between the wider scales on the sides and belly of your snake. Giving your snake a soak for about 30 mins will usually kill off some of them, sometimes thats a good way to tell how bad your infestation is. Lots of visible adult mites means LOTS of invisible small adults, larvae, and eggs.

[midnite_316]

Ok I checked no I don't see any of them..I can just soak her just to make sure...