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.

[Mikoh4792]

Well I have a scale coming in tomorrow so I am going to weigh the snake. I can't know for sure until I weigh it but from guessing it seems to be around 10-15 grams. So the dosage if I am correct would be around 1 to 1.5 mg's.

^ That's just an estimate but if that turns out to be true I can just inject 1 mg into the mouse I feed it? How often would I use fenbendazole?

[possum]

Originally Posted by RandyRhoads

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

Ah, thank you for clarifying that...I've never heard of it injected before & was wondering if it was available in a different form, but I have been known to hide it in prey animals. That's been especially useful for things I don't wish to tube-feed it into (like rattlesnakes, LOL). The oral cavity on the rodent works very well...& the snake is none-the-wiser. This method could also be useful for one who is afraid to tube-feed a snake, btw.

(and thank you Randy Rhoads, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who "gets a headache" with these calculations! It's been a while since I've needed to dose any, also.)