I was being stupid when buying this corn snake

[RandyRhoads]

Originally Posted by possum

IM means intramuscular, in other words an injection.

I prefer to avoid injecting snakes & I have no trouble dosing orally*. Fenbendazole (brand/trade name Panacur) comes in a paste form for deworming horses, given orally; the tube is 25 grams of 10% paste (100 mg/g). Obviously snakes require a tiny fraction of what is given to horses...you need an accurate gram scale & some math skills...if this is all new, please have the vet do it. I don't off-hand recall the dose per body wt. for snakes. Fendbendazole given orally does have a decent margin of safety for snakes, but snakes are fragile when it comes to drugs & chemicals. (*tube-feeding a snake has been the most useful skill for me over the years)

The IM injection was in the food, not the snake.


The dosage is 100mg/kg PO (orally). KG not pound.
If you don't feel comfortable doing the math and administering yourself, doing what possum said and having the vet do it is a good idea. I've done a ton of drug calculations before and when I dosed mine I still got a headache and had to correct myself a few times.