Illness & Disease - What's Constitutes a Quarantine?

Quarantine, is a term used to describe the process of keeping an animal away from all other animals for a period of time long enough to recognize, diagnose, and treat any diseases the animal may have. The goal of a quarantine is to prevent outside illnesses from entering a collection, any time you aquire a new snake, you should quarantine it for at least 40 days.

For the quarantine to be effective, the diseases that animal may or may not have must also be kept away from other animals - this means decontaminating yourself before going from one snake/cage to another and making sure the quarantine enclosure is far enough away so that no parasites or other disease vectors can travel to the other animals. The suspect animal should be completely isolated from other animals until you are 100% certain all diseases have been eradicated.