Quote Originally Posted by jpman78 View Post
QTing can be just for the remainder of your collection but it can also be between QTed animals. Again like many husbandry choices it depends on how much risk you want to take.

If you have a quarantine setup and put 3 animals from 3 different breeders in the same quarantine setup you run the risk of one of the animals having an issue and "infecting" the other 2 animals. So QT can be used not just to keep your current collection healthy but also from other animals in QT. Again this is just a choice just as QTing is a choice.

So while QTing new animals all together protects your current collection...it doesn't protect the QT animals from each other.

That being said even with a bill of health from the vet I believe you said he hadn't run a fecal exam on them yet (e.g. poop exam). So what this means is you really don't know for sure that by breeding they aren't spreading something between one another because they haven't gotten a full "clean" bill of health back from the vet.

Now if you got both of these animals from the same breeder then there is a lower risk of one infecting the other....simply because chances are good if one has something already the other does too. But generically speaking it's a good idea to make sure animals are 100% healthy before breeding them......again though everyone is entitled to take as much or as little risk with their collection and breeding as they want.

I hope that makes sense and is helpful for you.

Nicely Said JPMan,
I got these snakes all from the same breeder, in the same package, so if one had anything, the rest would probably too. I also emailed him before they came to see if they were house near eachother, and he said the males had been housed together and the female had been housed together (male container, female conatiner)... the two containers next to eachother in the rack system... He also said that very week, the newsprint would be changed and sprayed with provent-a-mite since they were hatchling (he raised them up)... Now you may say that he might of been telling somewhat of a lie, but this is one of my uncles friends, and my uncle does a lot of business with him, so the guy knows, if anything were wrong with these snake (disease, parasites, mis-labeled animals) that he would lose all business with us, and he doesnt do very well business in the first place lol