Actually you have fenbendazole in a paste with a brand name of Safe-Guard. The same thing is sold as Panacur. Same drug, different brand names. Anyway, fenbendazole comes in different formulations like paste, powder and suspension.



As to your specific question, I don’t know how you would measure out this form of the product for a reptile. Bear in mind, most folks buying a tube of this paste down at the feed and tack store would be dosing an animal the size of a steer or horse, not a snake. One way you might measure out the paste would be to weigh it on a gram scale. Another way with a full tube would be to try to visualize 25 individual slices through the tube; each would weigh one gram; thus each would contain 100 mg of the drug. Then you could try to divide up each “slice” further as needed. Not super accurate. Luckily, fenbendazole has a wide margin of safety, so if you take reasonable care you shouldn’t be endangering your reptile – too much. But, by the way, how were you planning on convincing that snake to swallow a little of that paste? Okay, I’ll quit joking. I’m guessing you were planning on putting the paste on a food item once the snake had started to eat it? But that’s really not the preferred method of administering the drug.



The above issues are why it would be better for you if you had this drug in a liquid suspension form. Then you could measure it out and administer it via a tube like the sulfadimethoxine (Albon) we talked about above. But, please note, (at least from my reading of your question) you are still missing a few pieces of the puzzle. For any drug you want to administer you need to know what constitutes a dose, how often to give that dose and how long to continue the treatment



Different reference suggest different dosages when using fenbendazole to treat nematodes in reptiles, so you might want to consult with your veterinarian. If that IS what you are trying to treat, then you should be safe with 50 mg/kg given once orally, then repeated one or two times at 2 week intervals.



Sorry to be so long winded. And I hope you didn’t think I was talking down to you. I just wanted to be sure we were both on the same page.



Not a veterinarian,

Joan

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