I was being stupid when buying this corn snake

[Mikoh4792]

I tried to find a list of vets around my area but they all seem to specialize in mammals(dogs, cats, small animals(hamsters,ferrets...etc). Under each of their descriptions it does say "reptiles" but it seems like they all just checked everything in order to look like they know how to treat everything. Do vets like these know what they are doing? I also checked out their bios and it says nothing about reptiles. Honestly, I would rather do it myself. How do you guys measure 1mg? do gram scales even measure that low?

[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.)

[Starbuck]

mikoh, with a snake as small as yours, i honestly would not dose it yourself.
I doubt you will kill it, as corns are hardy to begin with and as mentioned panacur has a pretty broad range of effective dosage;

But for a HATCHLING animal that does not even have a confirmed parasite burden, that is recently brought into captivity and is already stressed, i wouldnt recommend stressing it further by bombing its system with a poorly measured (you are very, very unlikely to be able to accurately measure the dose needed on a scale appropriate for weighing your snake, we are talking 0.1 grams here) dose of a drug.

Just my two cents. Honestly, i would just keep it, feed it, keep it away from other snakes if you have any, and wait until it gets bigger and more established to treat it. Any parasite burden it has now is unlikely to kill it as long as husbandry is spot on.

[Mikoh4792]

Originally Posted by Starbuck

mikoh, with a snake as small as yours, i honestly would not dose it yourself.
I doubt you will kill it, as corns are hardy to begin with and as mentioned panacur has a pretty broad range of effective dosage;

But for a HATCHLING animal that does not even have a confirmed parasite burden, that is recently brought into captivity and is already stressed, i wouldnt recommend stressing it further by bombing its system with a poorly measured (you are very, very unlikely to be able to accurately measure the dose needed on a scale appropriate for weighing your snake, we are talking 0.1 grams here) dose of a drug.

Just my two cents. Honestly, i would just keep it, feed it, keep it away from other snakes if you have any, and wait until it gets bigger and more established to treat it. Any parasite burden it has now is unlikely to kill it as long as husbandry is spot on.

Sound advice. I'll probably wait half a year or a year then see how it does. By then I will probably have found an actual vet who specializes in reptiles and I can get him checked out.

Do most wild caught animals have parasites? As in statistically do more than half of wc snakes come with them?

[KORBIN5895]

Originally Posted by Starbuck

mikoh, with a snake as small as yours, i honestly would not dose it yourself.
I doubt you will kill it, as corns are hardy to begin with and as mentioned panacur has a pretty broad range of effective dosage;

But for a HATCHLING animal that does not even have a confirmed parasite burden, that is recently brought into captivity and is already stressed, i wouldnt recommend stressing it further by bombing its system with a poorly measured (you are very, very unlikely to be able to accurately measure the dose needed on a scale appropriate for weighing your snake, we are talking 0.1 grams here) dose of a drug.

Just my two cents. Honestly, i would just keep it, feed it, keep it away from other snakes if you have any, and wait until it gets bigger and more established to treat it. Any parasite burden it has now is unlikely to kill it as long as husbandry is spot on.

An 18" corn snake is hardly a HATCHLING .

[RandyRhoads]

Originally Posted by Starbuck

mikoh, with a snake as small as yours, i honestly would not dose it yourself.
I doubt you will kill it, as corns are hardy to begin with and as mentioned panacur has a pretty broad range of effective dosage;

But for a HATCHLING animal that does not even have a confirmed parasite burden, that is recently brought into captivity and is already stressed, i wouldnt recommend stressing it further by bombing its system with a poorly measured (you are very, very unlikely to be able to accurately measure the dose needed on a scale appropriate for weighing your snake, we are talking 0.1 grams here) dose of a drug.

Just my two cents. Honestly, i would just keep it, feed it, keep it away from other snakes if you have any, and wait until it gets bigger and more established to treat it. Any parasite burden it has now is unlikely to kill it as long as husbandry is spot on.

Even worse, .01gs of paste. Like I said, a tiny dab on the end of a toothpick size.

Kim has a good recipe for diluting it with Pedialyte, making it much easier to work with. Maybe she will drop by and help, or shoot her a PM.