>> In my experience they do not. Symptoms will go away only to return later, maybe next year with a little cooling. That was my experience with burmese. I've only had one RI with balls, years ago. The adult male was still in quarantine when he showed signs, after treatment he seemed fine. The next winter just as we were starting to cool it returned. I put him in another room and raised the heat, in a week or so he died. If there is another with RI they will be removed and never return. Better safe than sorry, Mike

Thanks for the input. I am sorry to hear about the male. The hobby has many ups... but definitely some big downs. Would you happen to know how contagious RI is? Does it require direct contact for it to transfer? I only ask this because the day after I received her, I asked my bf to check on her while I did something else. He stupidly decides to take her out of the quarantine room and carry her into the same room as my collection. What worries me is that I don't know what he's touched.

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