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If using a rack to individually house snakes in their own tub, do you still have to quarantine a snake before putting it in the rack?
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You need a separate cage in a separate room.

Same rack/same room:
Mites crawl; some diseases can spread via the air; you’re less apt to be using separate tools or waste disposal in the same room; you’re less apt to clean your hands between cages.

Different cage/different room:
Well, all the above still hold true, but you’re more apt to catch a problem in time before it can spread to the rest of your collection – even if the rest of your collection is only one other animal.

You see plenty of pictures posted by “breeders” who say “look at the new snake I just got today”, and they’ve posed it with 3 other snakes from their collection so you can see all the pretty morphs. You don’t see the pictures which say “look at all the mites that are now infesting my entire collection,” or “no more pictures to post because a catastrophic illness wiped out every animal.” Be safe.

-Joan

Joan,
What type of diseases are air born? External parasites are easy to treat with provento mite. I posted a similar question in a different forum earlier about quarantine. I was mainly concerned with air born bacteria/virus. Thanks

Allan