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What have you been through?

What have you been through since you started the hobby?

  • RIs

    Votes: 44 55.7%

  • Internal parasites

    Votes: 30 38.0%

  • Mites

    Votes: 58 73.4%

  • Stomatits (Scale / mouth rot)

    Votes: 16 20.3%

  • Problem feeders

    Votes: 63 79.7%

  • Egg binding

    Votes: 12 15.2%

  • Weight loss

    Votes: 21 26.6%

  • Injuries (burns, bites, etc)

    Votes: 26 32.9%

  • IBD (I sincerely hope no one has to check this)

    Votes: 5 6.3%

  • Other

    Votes: 13 16.5%

  • None of the above! I've been blessed with healthy herps.

    Votes: 3 3.8%
  • Total voters
    79
I've been in the hobby for two years and we've had RIs, parasites, mites, injuries, and LOTS of trouble with a certain ball who has fasted, didn't want to convert to f/t, and now doesn't want to convert to rats. :shrug01:
 
Years ago when I went from the pet stage to the collector stage I should've done more research on QUARANTINE...that's were the mites came in! Thankfully, I only had a small group at the time--but even so, getting rid of them is a huge pain...
RI's are much easier to deal with, unless the reptile doesn't recover, but a pain as well.
Thank goodness I have been blessed otherwise!
 
I filled in pretty much everything, including the IBD. Although I should say that some of those were problems I dealt with in a less than direct manner. Friends who had animals where they wanted my opinion or for me to work with it when a problem occurred, shipments coming in from suppliers with issues back when I was actually selling things and the oddball animal that would just get dumped on me as unwanted by the original owner.

Other in this case was a few instances of chemical poisoning.
 
I checked almost all since I first got involved with this hobby doing rescues. I'm glad I don't take in rescues anymore but huge KUDOS to those that do. :)
 
I checked all but IBD and Nothing. It should be noted that over the course of almost 20 years, and many, many purchases (including buying for a pet shop), one can get a lot of crap...and standards/expectations weren't always as high as they are now.
 
Are you meaning me or my animals?
 
Let's see.... I've had a few of these, but mercifully few.

Internal parasites: Just flagellates. Easy to treat!
Problem Feeders: Just my one ball python who has refused f/t for three years...but I might finally be convincing her!
Injuries: One from a frightened rat and one from a snake accidentally grabbing herself instead of the rodent.
Weight Loss & Other: Almost entirely from leopard geckos. Lost one to lipidosis, one to an eye infection (and subsequent infection), and two to an insufficient quarantine period (new baby transmitted cryptosporidium to a healthy gecko--both passed away).

Other than the leopard gecko fiasco, I've been blessed with very healthy herps. <3
 
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im the lucky one i know it will happen sooner then later i will have a problem i have 14 snakes 7 bearded dragons and a huge pac man frog i love the hobby i hope i can keep my clean streak going i love this site
 
wow ok first python imported ball ticks and a poor feeder.

when i did venomous most of them were wild caught ( was friends with and worked for an importer so it was easy) and got almost everything you could imagine ri's parasites etc
 
Before I started getting super picky about who I was buying from & settled down to what I actually wanted to work with, I've dealt with most of the list. The only thing I haven't had to deal with so far ( knock on wood ) is the IBD.

Back in the day, most of my critters came from local pet shops. Talk about learning experiences. Its amazing how long I've been mite free since I stopped going to the local shops. One was so bad, you'd bring home mites standing at the front counter and never setting foot in the reptile room 50 feet away.
 
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