12-16-2007, 02:51 AM
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Originally Posted by lucille
She did not have these kinds of rats before.
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False -- go back and read the rest of my threads on that forum. I have kept these rats for quite a long time -- that was just a new batch I had brought in to replace my old and retired colony and start some new genetic lines of color/pattern. These rats are only fed to two snakes -- neither of which has gotten sick. None of the rats have gotten sick either. That was the first thing I asked my vet -- if this could have come from prey. He said absolutely not, there are only 2 illnesses besides parasites that he knows of that can pass from prey to snake, and they are bacterial. The chance of it happening is so minut that it isn't even considerable at this point. <--------- His words.
As for it spreading to other snakes, we don't know yet. That is one of the tests that they're going to determine. So far, my 3 rainbow boas and my 2 cornsnakes are just fine.
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