If the boa has passed it's quarantine period, which for boids I class as 6 months then it is fine to go into the main room, the quaratine room is just another pyshical barrier that needs to be crossed by infection, all the animals in the quarantine room so be treated as if they were the only animal in there, hands washed before and after handling or entering the cage, seperate equipment and decor that never gets moved from one viv to another while animals are present, seperate feeding tongs etc.

there's just the tiniest possibilty that you could have phrased that a tad better
regards gaz

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Whilst quarantine is important before introducing new reptiles it isn't completely fool proof is it ? Unless you have a seperate changes of cloths for each a serperate room to quarantine them in etc..

Your best bet is just to get some alchol gel and wash your hands with that before handling multiple reptiles

See i quarantine to the best of my ability, but to be honest i think its pretty hopeless. I was the same with the birds when i bred parrots. As a trained care assistant and having worked with patients with MRSA and the likes, its virtually impossible to have proper quarantine facilities in the home.

To quarantine properly any new arrivals MUST be kept in a sealed room, every time you enter that room you change your clothes. Gloves and masks must be worn at all times. Hair is to be covered. Seperate equipment is used and sterilised after each use. All substrate, refused food etc must be placed in sealed containers within the room and incinerated asap. Jewellery of any kind, including wedding rings etc must be removed before entry.
Upon leaving the room, you must remove your clothes in a seperate sealed cubicle within the quarantine area, place all of your clothes in a sealed plastic sack for disinfecting or incineration, remove footwear. Dispose of masks and gloves for incineration. Use a disinfecting hand scrub and alcohol type hand gel before redressing.

Without ALL of the above in place, airborne infections and diseases are literally impossible to contain.

I don`t know about anyone else, but i cannot accomodate this procedure within my home.

So i keep them seperate when they arrive, use seperate equipment etc....but quarantine?....no not really.

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Its got bog all to do with me where your head it is at!!! Cheeky people. If you al live in the gutter.

Marina

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Quarantine to me now is the number one priority.

Back when i got my second tortoise i knew naff all about quarantine. I asked the pet shop, they said ti wasnt necessary, and my mum and aunt years before had torts n had never quarantined.

Then both my torts got ill..and thats not a risk i'm taking ever again. It was my own ignorance and belief that i'd been told the right information from a shop.

every animal now gets quarantined for 6 months before being allowed near the collection. Seperate equipment, tubs, etc alcohol hand gel used after literally everything...i've gone through three bottles this month alone to give u some idea.

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I must admit I don't always quarantine new animals. If they have come from a trusted source (which pretty much all mine have), then I haven't enforced a quarantine.
I'm sure people will argue against that, but if I trust the seller has had the animal for 6 months or more, and hasn't noticed any illness, that is good enough for me.
Ones I have bought from an unknown seller or petshop I do quarantine.

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good and poignant points raised here, anyone done agency work in a hospital by anychance - an eye opener.

i keep them seperate when they arrive for 3 months (in a different room)use different tongs ect

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Your are totally correct, but like you I can't accomodate that procedure either, but I do everything humanly possible that I can.

Just when people pick something up and stick it in the same area or the same viv as another animal, there have been times before now when I have been to buy an animal and sellers haven't asked me to wash my hands or use hand gel so I use my own before and after handling any of their animals.

I do know who you is on about Nix