Quote Originally Posted by numba1stuna8162 View Post
Okay, let me clear this up....first of all I am somewhat new to reptiles, I am not claiming to be an expert, but I am deff not new, I have been around reptiles and people who own reptiles all of my life. The word "quarantine" means a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease. Although I do not own any other sankes or reptiles for that matter, I was not worried about spreading anything to any other snakes obviously, however I am not going to put a brand new snake into my already preped tank with forest floor cypress mulch beeding, hides, water bowl, and all kinds of artificial plants, with mites only for me to a few days later have to throw out all the bedding and go through the whole hassle of treating mites to a brand new enclousure...its better to be safe than sorry, so you put the snake in another enclosure with white paper towels to see the mites if any, two old hides, a waterbowl, and proper heat just to make sure. Believe me my husbandry is great and if you saw pictures of my enclosure you would agree, I did my research, trust that!! As for the breeder that fix to the problem is bs! And I actually cannot believe that some of you on here agree with him. You are telling me that if I buy a snake from a breeder, not your local petsmart or petco, a breeder, and it dies a little over an hour later that I should have to wait a month, make another hour drive, look through the snakes again, and consider taking ANOTHER snake from him, not to mention take another hour drive back home?? Well at least I got the $7.00 admission fee paid for, right?? NO...whoever agrees with that is crazy, I'm sorry!! If I was a breeder, I would never do that to my client, you better believe that I am sending you another snake next day, free of charge, and free of shipping, garunteed to be alive, and free of mites and ticks. Like I said, I will post pictures of my tank setup, and the snake, and you all can judge for yourself.
Umm just because you place a snake into another tank with paper towels to look for mites is not enough to prevent mites from getting into your other tank.Infact mite eggs can be on the snake and hatch out later in your other setup.I am sorry you feel we are wrong for saying he is correct by doing what he is willing to do for you.No breeder or flipper is going to pay the extra shipping cost to replace a $7 snake(or whatever you paid for it).I am sorry to be blunt but i think you are slaming him for no good reason.To see how others feel take your story to www.faunaclassifieds.com, to see what they think.There is allready a thread asking if anyone has dealt with him and i placed a link to 1 positive post on him.