>>>>This is exactly what I am getting at, why didn't you start with this responce? Of course dewormers have a place, why not discuss what that place is?????



OK so when have you used dewormers? If you get a snake that is underweight, has weird loose stool, and no history about the animal what would you do? Set it up properly and hope for the best? Set it up properly and run a fecal? Set it up properly and treat prophylacticly?





>>>Again, You said, its truth that nots enough is known, so why with the "it doesn't hurt" statements from earlier?



In truth your comment earlier was the very first potentially negative thing I have heard about using dewormers (aside from a few specific known problems). I consider them to be some of the most benign drugs out there. Many are not even absorbed by the body. I would love to hear more about how many monitors this happened to, what meds were used ect. Were the effects permanent or the year after deworming did they come back and breed? I am sure that over the years that you decided to stop treating you were also learning and adjusting your husbandry, what makes you think the problem was with the meds?



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