Preventing snake diseases. Avoid nidovirus, ibd, and others. Keep reptiles HEALTHY!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2025
- One simple trick that we think COULD help keep diseases from spreading in your reptile collection. Very simple, and certainly can't hurt!
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Love the humor and frankness. Good info.
I worked a lot of years for an OCD veterinarian, he instilled in us the mindset that Every.Single.Animal. has a disease that's fatal to the next animal you touch. I don't have near the number of snakes you do so mine are in terrariums. But I scrub my arms up to my elbows and use hand sanitizer and change shirts in-between holding my snakes. I can't help myself, I'm possessed. So I'm thrilled to see someone do a video about this. Thank you!
And by god, that's your hose and you can sanitize it all you want 😁
So what would you recommend for the following:
Testing. When you are quarantining, how many times would you test a snake before introducing to your collection? 1x per 21 days for 3-4 times?
Reptile shows. When you bring back snakes that didn’t sell... how do you quarantine? Completely separate racks for your “sale animals”? Would you setup a “sale area”, a “quarantine area”, and then your “holdback/broodstock area”? Could you have all 3 in the same room? Maybe separate rack sections into areas in the room? Just label totes of what’s being done?
I thought it was about diseases not about how to prevent the spread. Your always full of information. I would love to see you teach more on the diseases that bps get.
Thank you for pointing out that if you use gloves you need to change em out after each handling!!
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought hand sanitizer only deactivates bacteria by breaking the cell wall and it does absolutely nothing against viruses. Unlike soap and water the hand sanitizer also does not wash the contaminant off of you it just smears it around.
Hand sanitizer also has no effect on parasites such as Cryptosporidium which is probably worse than any virus because it can hang around without a host for months and is not destroyed by any usual method.
What I'm getting at is that washing your hands is probably superior to just about anything else you can do. =\
I have only three snakes and only one I would like to possibly breed once I get some more.
I am still scared of my snakes getting sick because I love them!
Logical, informative & hilarious 😂 thanks for the great content 🙏
Good job with the videos, we're always watching when new ones come out. On this subject though if you're worried about cross contamination in your collection when disinfecting hands and tools it all goes down the drain if you don't clean the counter in between putting snakes on it. I deal with cross contamination a lot being a tattooist and know if you leave one thing out of the sterilisation process it makes it all pointless. Anyway keep up the good work take care and stay safe 👍
True, didn't think of counter. On day to day work, I don't use it. But for filming, I certainly do
@@OlympusReptilesthank you for reply, it was when watching your pied or axanthic pastel video I noticed it. I would say its more knowing the risk and dealing with it accordingly. Always quarantine away from a established collection and dont mix tools etc, disinfect hands, surfaces and tools when working with animals in quarantine, when they move over to main collection (family unit) they in theory shouldn't have any major issues to worry about so general cleaning/husbandry should be sufficient. Everyone should be checking their animals everyday so If issues do arise then isolate and treat. It can all get a bit too complicated when it doesn't need to be :) I would say even the biggest breeder set ups are very low risk as long as proper quarantine is set up and adhered to correctly and anyone come in from outside disinfects hands and arms before handling any animals 👍 we're only newbies to the hobby so only going off my business and all the risk assessments I've had to do as we're high risk with cross contamination. Take care and thanks for the great videos
The majority of snake diseases are transmitted by mites. They are the vector for diseases like nido and IBD. Similar to the diseases ticks and mosquitoes carry and spread. Great video and way to open the conversation.
Absolutely love the great information and Thank you for sharing as always!!! Matt and Kurt keep up the great and amazing work!! Love everything you all do. This is very useful information and I am glad you shared this. Great topic.
Depending on what you are using to disinfect your hands depends on how long it takes to kill anything ON your hands. ie Virus, Germs, Bacteria etc. Gloves would be the 100% dependable choice. Change after each tub cleaning and snake handling.
They would, but way too many gloves.
ALWAYS! Disinfect your hose with an up and down motion. Make sure you also twist to get full coverage.
Be sure to use lubricant lol
Cool! you're back to posting great educational videos!
bloody youtube, it says you have 1 view on this episode although there's already 3 coments?!
We always try. Even the "ballbash" is providing information on individual genetics, what happens in pairings, etc. Also designed to share market info of what is popular. Information was just disguised.
Great info and vid guys 👍
Thanks for sharing love the videos
Excellent! Video informative.
Great vid amazing topic love the vids guys love from the uk
Great video, great info!
Thank you for the information really informative .
I always wash with soap and water between handling my snakes. I wash my feeding tongs and hooks as well. I have various Pythons and Boas. No mites or diseases so far. A lot of people have snakes who are bothered by snake mites. Could you address snake mites and how to get rid of them?
We have shown what we do. Simply use a product called reptile spray
Great topic!
Good job on this vid
What do you use for hand sanitizer? There's so many out there, just wanting to make sure I get safe stuff. I have been waking my hands in between handling my reptiles, I didn't know you could handle so quickly after hand sanitizer being applied. This is good to know!!!
Just regular alcohol based hand sanitizer.
my male has a strawberry rash on his back It showed up the same day he had a reverse shed
its not moist nor hurts him if I touch it I havent changed any routines nor have any other animals
i haven't changed any of my detergents or any hygiene he hasn't been around other snakes im lostbas to what it itv
Not sure.
Use this video in my bp groups :)
The nurse in me just fainted. Hand sanitizer isn't for disinfecting hard surfaces to even work on the hands it needs rubbed in until dry. Invest in some spray or wipes made for that please
We are not using it for much more than hands. Except on a tool in between (definitely better than most doing nothing). However, any other disinfectant spray/wipe would work. Mainly, hands. Hands. Hands.
Thank you very much for sharing. I'm still very new to the hobby and a video about the diseases and how to recognize them early would be super helpful. What do you think of quarantining new animals before putting them into the collection? Many thanks and best regards from Germany!
Quarentine is always a good practice. But like it, a quick cleaning of hands is good too
@@OlympusReptiles Thanks for the super quick response!
I'm losing sleep over it right now 😪 I just finished a course of antibiotics treating RI in my Morelia spilota, I've found the antibiotics haven't worked an it is now starting to show neurologically signs. Im starting to stress hoping its not ibd
I would get one tested
Good stuff with great info! Have you ever got into having to use flagyl or maybe something even stronger like baytril? I'm going into my 5th year and 3rd year breeding and had to use baytril this past season. It saved my snake and she was back to normal in a couple months! Would you ever do a video on something like this? Always a good watch guys!!!
I would if I had enough experience to be comfortable and knowledgeable with it. But I don't
@@OlympusReptiles No worries at all Matt! This was the first time I've ever had this kind of thing and just curious what others do and would be a great tutorial. That's a good thing you don't have experience in this type of disease!:) Keep up the great work!! Separate topic, hang in there with your job. The things that are going on right now are just killing our law enforcement. I can't even post my opinion on the topic because if your not in one certain group,,,, anything you say is wrong. Thanks again for what you do!!:)
Makes me sad because I only have one room I can keep snakes in and I wanted boas and pythons but then heard about this damn IBD shit
It keeps messing with me. Is that lizard on the back wall fake It never moved
Fake
I got my first snake last month and tested positive for ibd yesterday. I had them euthanize him then. Should I get all new hides? Or can I spray them and the pvc enclosure with a bleach solution and sit in the sun for a few days?
Probably can bleach. But if we're just talking a few, I would replace. Better safe than sorry.
@Olympus Reptiles how long does the virus last on a surface you think? I'm sure not that long, most viruses are pretty delicate without a host
What is the brand of mite spray you use? Do you put it in the snake or just the tub/ substrate?
Reptile spray, right on em
I'd be in favor of testing snakes when you buy them as well as quarantining. factor in the cost of a test as just part of the purchase price, if you're just keeping a few snakes and a nice collection and not getting new animals too often, then it's an infrequent expense like your dogs shots. If you've got a larger collection with multiple new animals every year you can consider it as an insurance policy, negotiate a bulk rate or go direct to the lab maybe, and best of all, write the expense off as tax deductible if you're breeding.
i know Im kind of off topic but does anyone know of a good site to stream new tv shows online ?
@Gavin Crew ehh try Flixportal. Just google after it:P -dakota
@Dakota Jad Thank you, I went there and it seems like they got a lot of movies there =) I really appreciate it!
@Gavin Crew happy to help :D
Makes sense. I already handled all my snakes without using hand sanitizer in between. No issues so far but adopting this practice. I only thought about sanitizing myself before and after so I appreciate the topic.
I haven't had an issue either, but hoping to prevent one
What do you think on bioactive enclosures for ball pythons?
I know some who love em. Never used one personally
When are we going to see the results of round 1??
As soon as it is finished. Bracket will continue to update as we film.
Hey matt i have a quick question what do you Recommend for mites
Reptile spray
What substrate do you use
I just switched to reptichip but I can't seem to figure bout how to dry it or the right moisture for it and the hot hides are wet like super wet but the rest of the tub feels dry or slightly damp
Reptile prime
@@OlympusReptiles the bryan b one?
You have me rubbing hand sanitizer all over myself
F10 for the win
Tremendous
matt: nitovirus me: why not coronavirus
Gotta disinfect that hose
Lol, it never touched anything but my clean hands
😂
Got a question for you. Me and the wife want to do a breeding project for dreamsicles. No one around us breeds anymore and the only reptile "store" is junksmart anymore. If we were to buy the Pride of texas rack you showed (cheap one 15 tub) how many thermostat (herpstats) will we need? Is a herp 1 good? Or will I need more then 1 thermostat? We are scared of using one because that just monitors one zone.
One in middle should do
@@OlympusReptiles thank you very much! Love the videos as well! You and Brian are the reason we are looking into this!