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RE: Out there waiting to strike your collection
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by earthguy on May 3, 2010
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Paul,
I'm really sorry for your loss. The snakes that I have gotten from you in the past have always been healthy and happy...a testament to how you care for your animals.
At the risk of sounding like an alarmist, I wonder how many of you follow sterilization protocls when field herping. Obviosly we all want to protect our collections, but I assume we all want to protect the wild populations as well. I'm not saying we all have to clam up and stay out of the field (that would be unthnkable). All I'm saying is it may be a good idea to sterilize your field equipment from time to time (especially between isolated ecosystems), keep separate hooks for field & collection, and basically use a few best management principles.
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RE: Out there waiting to strike your collection
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by CanadianSnakeMan on May 11, 2010
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Sorry to hear about your losses. Something of that magnitude must be agonizing.
I am currently keeping my reptiles at a private zoo until I can lobby to change some local laws. The zoo called my recently to tell me that one of my boas and my caiman both died within a few days of each other and in apparrent good health.
The caiman enclosure was directly adjascent to the boa's enclosure.
Can crocodillians get OPV?
I will definitely be beefing up my sterile procedures from now on.
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by Cro on May 12, 2010
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Luke, yes, there are many recorded cases of paramyxovirus in caiman and other crocodiles.
http://www.google.com/search?q=paramyxovirus+in+crocodiles&hl=en
Best Regards
John Z
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by hajelegionis on September 19, 2010
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Hi,
OPMV burned out my collection last year. If you go the long way it will ruin your hobby.
The virus can`t "survive" long outside. Inside wet substrate etc. it will survive a while. But on clothes, glas and everthing else where it may can land it will deactivate in hours, max. days.
Theres no need for hard desinfectionfluids. Normal fatkilling cleaners will do the job too.
If I had to go trough that again I would keep everthing dry, close the ventilation and do nothing with enclosures which have had infected snakes inside. Just euthanasize the snake an let the enclosure dry out.
DON`T take out the substrate directly. Put the snakes in different rooms will give you better chances to have survivors.
Don`t feed if not necessary. Give water max once a week.
Fill boiling water in the watersprayer and let it cool down.
Spray ardap on a washcloth and rub it outside of the enclosures to kill all flys, mites and insects which can move between them. Buy some desinfectionspray an spray the air if you do something in an enclosure.
The more you do the more you can do wrong.
There are subtil signs in infected snakes. All of my infected snakes shows stomachcramplike symptoms (like swallowing some food without there is food) before they get serious symptoms like lungproblems. Not all my snakes showed lunproblems. My adamanteus just had shown twisted positions and stopped eating.
Its no fun havin trouble with PMV. Keeping snakes under laboratory conditions for a longer time has the potencial to crack the fascination in keeping snakes.
In my case it is still not completely forgotten and my hobby isn`t the same without there is anything I can do to make it like it was before the virus.
Good luck.
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