Can hear it in my mind perfectly. I quarantine religiously since I have multiple setups. This includes frogs and plants. And like KMC I keep my new new acquisitions in different areas of my living abode than the rest of my collection. My setups now are quite simple but have varied quite a bit over my keeping. Some setups are more elaborate than others but now I mostly just use a moderate layer of leaf litter with a few easier plant clippings (pothos). I quarantine for a minimum of 8 weeks. You are wise to take precautions and not cut corners. I don't know the contagion level of amphibian disease to varanids, but why risk it.... or vice versa. Quarantine is easy enough and is only temporary.
Post soak. He is by far my best looking Kim. His girlfriends tend to stay wedged in the rocks or attempting to dig to china.
I'd say that type of mistake could have gone much, much worse ;-) Happy to delete that post if you would like me to.
Yeah I guess it could have 🤣. Posting from my phone and the buttons are so damn small.
In my qt I always use paper towels to keep an eye on their feces. Thats usually the easiest indicator that something is wrong.
I agree there are a wide variety of QT practices, some better than others. You are talking about decisions made prior to acquiring animals to help mitigate risk, all of which I completely agree with. All are good precautions. The caveat that I'll add to your mentioned preventative decisions on where to purchase your frogs is that it requires a pretty intimate understanding of the person's collection that you are sourcing from. Like if they themselves are experienced breeders keeping wild caught. When and where they have sourced new acquisitions to their collection and if where they sourced their animals from keeps wild caught (I'm not referring to flipping frogs just bringing additional animals into their collection for whatever reason). Etc. Even a trusted sources acquires new animals from time to time and that may be unknown to potential buyers. I guess my point is that even when purchasing from trusted/reputable sources there is an inherent level of risk. I know you weren't saying anything to the contrary, I just wanted to point out that people should never have an absolute level of confidence in where they purchase their frogs from and take reasonable precautions. What those precautions are is what is up for debate.
I've seen keepers use that method successfully. Some go much more elaborate and do entirely natualistic smaller vivs for quarantine. And some find a healthy compromise between the minimalistic temporary quarantine setup and naturalistic masterpieces for quarantine. The point is that there is a period of isolation and observation away from the confines of any of the rest of your collection. Not necessarily saying in a different room. In a perfect world yes. But not everyone has that capability. Everyone should, however, take some reasonable precautions in my opinion. I understand "reasonable" is up for debate.
