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How long to quarantine?

Jicin

Jicin

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How long should a snake generally be going in quarantine? I bought a snow and a charcoal the 28 of august. There not going to physically touching my other snakes. But right now i won't handle my 'proven clean' snakes untill i've disinfected my hands. And not all al when they've run over my clothes.
They eat awesome and sheds are good. I once had a little tiny spider crawling over my hand when i held the snake. I've not seen any signs of parasites after that and it might just be something coming from my own hands.
I simply want to move them out of the quarantine plastic container and in a bigger viv.
 
I usually quarentine for a few weeks. I usually feed, let the snake deficate, take poo to a vet for tests, and then feed and let deficate again before putting any snakes together. something else that I do sometimes is to let the new snake shed before placing him/her with new snakes as this could let you know if you have mites or other external skin probles.
 
why would you quarentine a snake? Never have I done that. Just buy the snake bring it home and place it in a viv. Ive never had a problem with parasites, or anyother issues.
 
Newt:
You should always quarantine new herps incase they have a disease/mites that may be able to be passed to your current animals.


I always keep my new snakes strictly quarantined from the rest of my snakes (in a different room and I never do anything with my other snakes unless I take a shower first) for at least 3 months. Even after this period I never let them be in contact with each other or not disinfect my hands when going between them and my other snakes, though at this point they are now allowed to be in the same room. I usually continue the hand disinfection between animals for about 1 year, then I don't worry about it anymore. At this time I also allow them to be together for photos, breeding, etc.

I may be considered overly cautious, but I don't want any diseases to spread just because I wasn't careful.

I also apply a quarantine to myself when I've gone to a herp show. When I come home I take a shower immediately, incase I brought home germs/mites, etc. Same with when I go out herping, though in those cases I usually would need to take a shower anyway, as I usually end up pretty dirty after my herping adventures.
 
90 days is an accepted length of time for a quarantine period. If I was dealing with boids I would make it even longer. Ideally a quarantine facility will be a separate building. Failing that, the same building withn a different air-handling system. Next down would be same building, same air, but different room.

I think Amanda makes some extremely good points Particularly about outside herping trips and shows. Too many people have lost all or part of their collection of herps because they failed to adhere to strict quarantine procedures and they brought home a sick animal who then infected their other animals.

I even know of someone who lost most of their collection because they failed to disinfect their snake tools (either hook or tongs) after taking them to a show and inspecting what turned out to be a sick animal there. Not all sick animals look sick - you can't tell by looking at them, and it is never worth the risk. Just because you have been lucky in the past doesn't mean you always will be.
 
I am careful to wash my hands before handling each of my snakes, and they've both been with me for almost a year. I think it's just safer for them. Good point about herp shows Amanda. I never thought of bringing home germs to them, only other snakes coming into the house. I'll remember that next time I go.
 
This is great info. I will be sure to keep the new snake that I got this year to breed with my yearling away for longer than I was planning on. I was hoping to be able to breed them early 2006. But I was going to put them in the same room/rack before this winter. Now I will keep them in seperate rooms until next spring, which should be 3 months. And, thanks for the info about the herp shows. Will make sure to take this info to heart.
 
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