Get the sick ones away from the healthy ones, pronto! And keep them away. Separate rooms. Then take one of the sick ones to the vet and have it tested for Inclusion Body Disease. Get rid of the mites. Strip all of the cages, and thoroughly disinfect them and spray with Provent-a-mite (or similar product) or a .1% solution of Ivomec. The mites will vector the disease to your other snakes.

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• help!!! i had one snake die in a matter of 10 days while on vacation and others showing weird signs - vcaruso15, Mon Sep 8 19:56:12 2003
• RE: help!!! i had one snake die in a matter of 10 days while on vacation and others showing weird signs - oldherper, Mon Sep 8 21:08:57 2003
• RE: help!!! i had one snake die in a matter of 10 days while on vacation and others showing weird signs - vcaruso15, Mon Sep 8 22:19:45 2003
• Is there a test, pre-mortem, for inclusion bodies? n/p - CH4, Fri Sep 12 22:26:10 2003
• RE: Is there a test, pre-mortem, for inclusion bodies? n/p - T.B, Fri Sep 12 23:03:32 2003
• There is no serological assay yet...... - oldherper, Sat Sep 13 18:06:23 2003