Next week Wednesday, I'm getting 3 new snakes! 1.1 Dumerils Boas 6ft proven pair & 1.0 Columbian Redtail Boa Constrictor! Yea, my girls will finally have boyfriends, and hopefully babies too!!!! WOOHOO!YIPEE! I'm so excited! LOL if you couldn't tell.....Marine

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•2.2 Ball Python:Slytherin,Stitch,Neo
•1.1 Col Redtail Boa:Aphrodite
•0.1 Pastel Col Redtail Boa:Lyoness
•1.2 Dumerils Boa:Demi,Sausage
•0.0.1 Savanna Monitor:Georgia
•2.0 Bearded Dragon:Roo,PoohBear
•0.0.1 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink:Tigger
•1.0 Irian Jaya Blue Tongued Skink:George
•1.0 Red eared slider
•1.0 Yellow bellied slider
•2.0 Japanese Firebelly Newts
•1.0 African Pygmy Hedgehog:Spike
•1 hubby Travis•2 sons Seth & Keith•me Marine
http://www.myspace.com/coralmarine

Congrats Marine!! We are excited for you to . We will expect pics ASAP

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MARSHA
A man without a woman is a bachelor, A woman without a man is a genius!.

We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart!

Hello,

Congrats! I too will be looking forward to pictures.

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Yay for new monsters!!! cant wait to see em!

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Yes my name is D... Yes as in the letter... No i wont tell you what it stands for!!!

The more the merrier! Congratulations...

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Colleen

Congrats on the new babies! Don't forget the mandatory quarantine!

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Oh yea! Thats why they're not going to be breed till next years breeding season! inclusion body disease is nothing to play around with or mites and anything else! They are definately going to be quarantined for at least 6 months!
I made that mistake once, when I first got boas over 5 years ago, I had a beautiful male redtail & ordered a female redtail from a well known online company that sells reptiles & supplies(I will never buy anything from them again!) but I only quarantined her for about 3 months, no signs of any problems(other than she had RI when I got her!)(I also called the company I bought her from to let them know they sold me a sick snake and they wouldn't do anything & didn't care), but not long after I put them together, she got RI again, I took her to my vet she got better & was doing fine, then a couple of months later, she started refusing to eat, then got RI again, took her back to vet and through a long battle she ended up dieing-I had a necropsy(vet recommended it) done on her and found she had inclusion body disease! A few months later my male redtail got bad case of RI & then died of inclusion body disease too, no other snakes were ever exposed and have had no further incidents with inclusion body disease, but that was one bad blow, I was very upset and destrought! (well about the female, I contacted the company I bought her from again, to let them know she died less than a year after buying her, and that she had inclusion body disease, they didn't care! and wouldn't compensate for any bills or loss of snake) so I refuse to buy any supplies from them ever again! BTW I had the male redtail for almost 2 years before all this happened! And never had any problems out of him at all! I am so thoroughly disgusted with that online store! So I ALWAYS quarantine my animals now, and I use that anti-microbial/bacterial hand sanitizer in-between messing with any different animals, just to be safe! I use 2 seperate cleaners when cleaning their cages too, 3 if changing cages to new size that other animals used to be in! I say can't be too careful! BTW I wasn't sure if it is appropriate to say the name of te company on here or not, but if it is, I will let you know who did this! (I had read that 3 months should have been a sufficent tiime for quarantine, but have since learned its not! Minimum quarantine time of 6 months or more now at my house!
sorry for venting, but even tho this happend a few years ago, I am still upset!
Marine

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•2.2 Ball Python:Slytherin,Stitch,Neo
•1.1 Col Redtail Boa:Aphrodite
•0.1 Pastel Col Redtail Boa:Lyoness
•1.2 Dumerils Boa:Demi,Sausage
•0.0.1 Savanna Monitor:Georgia
•2.0 Bearded Dragon:Roo,PoohBear
•0.0.1 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink:Tigger
•1.0 Irian Jaya Blue Tongued Skink:George
•1.0 Red eared slider
•1.0 Yellow bellied slider
•2.0 Japanese Firebelly Newts
•1.0 African Pygmy Hedgehog:Spike
•1 hubby Travis•2 sons Seth & Keith•me Marine
http://www.myspace.com/coralmarine

Great about the snakes, its always exciting to get a new rep. Btw, you have to post some great pics.

and just what is inclusion body disease? im not familiar with snakes at all (just curious)

inclusion body disease=Inclusion Body Disease (sp?) its a fast killing disease that effects boas & pythons (not herd it effecting any other species of snake) but the scientists are still trying to figure everything about it, how its transmitted, how long from actually getting the disease before they die, etc. there are different speculations as to how its transmitted, and to why it only effects boas & pythons. I heard about it in several of my books on boas & pythons that I have. But if your snake gets it, it will surely die And its very hard to determine they have without very expensive blood tests, and thats only if your vet will do the blood test too(I think the blood test thing is fairly new tho) theres a few warning signs, if they appear, star gazing, seizures, lethargy, fasting, lying on back or sides, RI(respiratory Infection), stomatitis (mouth rot), sudden loss of body weight, thats all I can remember off the top of my head right now. But its really horrible! Marine

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•2.2 Ball Python:Slytherin,Stitch,Neo
•1.1 Col Redtail Boa:Aphrodite
•0.1 Pastel Col Redtail Boa:Lyoness
•1.2 Dumerils Boa:Demi,Sausage
•0.0.1 Savanna Monitor:Georgia
•2.0 Bearded Dragon:Roo,PoohBear
•0.0.1 Merauke Blue Tongue Skink:Tigger
•1.0 Irian Jaya Blue Tongued Skink:George
•1.0 Red eared slider
•1.0 Yellow bellied slider
•2.0 Japanese Firebelly Newts
•1.0 African Pygmy Hedgehog:Spike
•1 hubby Travis•2 sons Seth & Keith•me Marine
http://www.myspace.com/coralmarine