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I know yellow fungus is contagious to other BD's, but what about other herps? I've never heard about it outside of BD's. I took in three adult males at the beginning of this month and one appears to have mild yellow fungus spots on his belly. I'm torn between treating them or moving them out to spare the rest of my collection. I'm REALLY anxious right now! I took them in for a lady who was overwhelmed, but I can't risk my collection.

It is thought that yellow fungus comes from a yeast infection inside the dragon, generally after all the good gut flora was destroyed by parasite treatments.

A vet I work closely with out of the office, has a dragon with very bad yellow fungus that lives with 3 other healthy dragons that have shown no ill effects. This is just an observation so accept it as no more than that.

if the yellow fungus is very mild, it can be treated... i don't think its contagious either but it certainly won't hurt to keep all three dragons you received from the same person isolated from your other dragons..another room works best...and get them separate feeding bowls etc and wash separately from those used on your other dragons (and different sink). It is always good to quarantine any new addition to your collection for at least a month..three being best, to be on the safe side.

I don't know much about any new research on yellow fungus disease but if you google it, should find all the old articles and new ones, for the disease in bearded dragons.
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PHLdyPayne

thanks.

They are quarantined in my garage along with all new reptiles. The problem is that I have two new corn snakes out there and a tegu that lives out there. I think it's pretty mild and it's already showing some signs of change after Lamasil and Chlorhexaderm treatments. I just wasn't super great about hand washing when coming in from messing with them (I think). I wash my hands a lot anyway because I'm always dealing with reptiles, but now I'm paranoid that I touched this one and then touched something else...ARGH!

My hubby thinks I should get rid of this guy before he jeopardizes our whole reptile collection. It does have me a bit spooked. If they have ever had antibiotics or dewormer, it would have been years ago. they were given to me in not so great conditions, I think it was poor husbandry and weak immune systems for this guy. But he is a monster of a dragon and a real tough guy. He's like a little bulldog, if you know what I mean. I think he would crawl back from hell itself!! He doesn't bite and he's not mean, but he's got that fighter personality.

I would always take him in, if that's what's best. There is no better care than here.

To my knowledge the yellow fungus found on dragons isn't commutable to other species. I actually haven't heard of other lizards or snakes getting fungal type diseases at all..other than unrelated bacterial type infections such as blisters (too damp and unsanitary conditions) or scale rot (more bacterial infection than fungal if I recall correctly). I don't think your corn snakes or tegu have anything to worry about.
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PHLdyPayne