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Bluerosy
at Mon Feb 1 10:12:14 2010 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
Good post TonyD!
The biggest thing that stands out for me on that list is the water dishes.
Anyone keeping snakes and especially large collections need to clean and disinfect their water dishes. This is how most problems start even if the most base of husbandry is left out (ventilation, heat gradients, clean substrate, humidity etc.)
Heck, i can routinly feed my snakes 2 day old dead bloated mice but if a water dish gets slimey and they drink it- watch out! you'll have problems.
Never switch water dishes to another cage unless they have been disinfected.
Also when auiring new residents in your established collection always give them a seperate area and do not switch cages or water bowls. QUARANTENE them.
Mites can be hard to see and even if the snakes loook healthy you never know if they caught a cooty (desease) and it is just not showing.
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