Unfortunately that is close to what I meant. I've heard of people using ball pythons that way, and I just wondered if colubrids reacted the same way or if they had some immunity.

If I actually thought a snake was infected, I would get a vet to perform tests rather than use another snake. I WOULD use another snake as an indicator following a 6-12 month quarentine period though. How else would I know that a boa was not a long term carrier? I would hate to lose any of my snakes....and I would not consider any snake "disposible" (hense the 1 year quarentine), but I would rather lose 2 than 20....plus run the risk of passing the disease along to other people's collections.

Travis
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Travis Rose
Lazy S Snake Ranch
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1.0 100% DH for Snow Boa
1.0 Hypo, 66% DH Moonglow Boa
0.1 Normal Common Boa
0.1 Circle Back Normal Boa
0.1 66% DH for Snow Boa
2.4 Kenyans
0.3 Dogs (1 Full Pitbull, 1 Pit/Husky, & 1 Bernese Mt. Dog cross)
0.3 Cats (1 fat, 1 old, and 1 insane)
0.1 Very understanding wife
1.0 Toddler (WC...still bites and musks)

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