So what next?????

[tokay]

Sticky this , would be very helpful

[Molly75]

Originally Posted by SleepyD

*nods* I agree
Hope so


I think what can even be more frustrating is when anyone's either advised to get their reps checked; get feacals done and practise even basic quarentine whether the animals are new, old or ill and the advise is ignored or poo-pood (either by them or others) with the result that either the animal concerned gets worse and dies when it could've been helped/treated or ~ in the case of parasites, coccidia, crypto etc ~ others with it also become ill sometimes fatally

Defo happens a lot I find the annoying thing is I've had leo's aged 16 who were crypto poss for 10 years remain stable it can be done but leads to loads of reps being sold as healthy and as soon as breeding stress is encountered they go downhill.

Originally Posted by tokay

Sticky this , would be very helpful

Mods i can do a more information based one for sticky if you want with more pics

Paula

[funky1]

Excellent thread - hopefully it will open a few ppl`s eyes as to the danger of thinking that a reptile that `looks` healthy and beautiful is in perfect condition, when it`s impossible to really gauge what`s going on on the inside without further probing.

I think most of us have succumbed to the belief - at first anyway - that all is well simply because something looks well, is eating, drinking and pooping: especially when they are told as such when they`re being sold it. But so many things take such a long time to show themselves, that it`s imperitive that we take the time and trouble (and cost!) to scratch a little beneath the surface from time to time - at least, as said, at least we can deal with any problem once we know there actually is one

[Slurm]

I know quarantine is a pain, but its a false economy to not follow.

I have animals in RUBs that i bought at Doncaster.... its annoying but its done to protect my other animals.

Last yr I bought 3 animals off someone on here and they were riddled with PINWORM. If i had not quarantined them i shudder to think of the outcome aswell as the work to address.

[serz]

Think this post is great and shows people just how important quarantine is. It just baffles me that if those pics were in a classifieds ad you would never know that there is anything wrong with them and someone would have bought them not knowing. Thats a real eye opener. Thanks for posting

[Molly75]

Thanks everyone
It sure is an eye opener I house the last chance here which is why i'm a sanctuary not rescue some of the reptiles here should never get out on an open market but if I'd been into it for the money I wonder how many would

Its just setting people up for heartache and some of these could without proper Q rules kill a whole collection in weeks ;(

Thanks for all the lovley replies I hope it helps in the long run

Paula x

[Big Red One]

Very good thread, made me think though about 'carriers' like those you mentioned.

I thought I'd throw this one out for thought - If you had a collection of whatever size and found out that you had say a Crypto positive animal, what would you do in regards to the rest of your collection ?

Where I'm coming from is, would you say ensure strict quarantine of the affected animal, or have it put to sleep and test all the others ?
If others were then found positive for example, would the same course of action then be taken ?
A tricky one I think.........

[Molly75]

I do have crypto positive reptiles which have been over 10 years its very easy to control and I have no other reptiles affected but those which have always been there it would be a shame to put them to sleep as they have been carriers for so long

The issues these days is people do not use the correct products to control the issue and reptiles being produced en mass its easy to forget to wash hands etc..

I can feacal screen so would check on a reg basis all the reptiles here the issues now is with so many new retroviruses rearing their ugly heads its very hard to control as you can't always tell who are carriers at first.

Even people keeping years get it wrong I like to think I can smell out a protazoan infection yep the poo smells different but spot a tiny tumour on a fox snake I bought in Houten totally missed that one untill it was to late

The one thing I always say is humans are good at picking up on minute changes so if you supect something its time to act or at least seek advice on if its neccessary to act.

Paula

[Molly75]

Thought I'd bump this hoping it might be helpful to someone

Thanks for taking the time to read this

Paula

[Hamish198]

Good thread, Will be helpful,

bump

Hamish.