You may want to consider investing in a microscope (you can get a decent one on ebay for $100-$200) and buy a copy of Understanding Reptile Parasites. Then, you can do your own fecals and tailor your treatment regimes. Understanding Reptile Parasites also gives recommended dosages and treatment schedules. I've read mixed things about parazap; I personally doubt the effectiveness of anything that proports to be a cure all. All the other drugs have specific parasites they're designed to treat; pancure is for treating nematodes/worms, flagyl is for treating protozoans/flagellates and albon for coccidia etc. This is where fecals can really help. Drugs like albon and even flagyl can be hard on the animal so you'd only want to use them if you really needed them.

-Alice

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• recommend some parasite treatments - umop_apisdn, Sat Dec 4 21:52:34 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - PHEve, Sat Dec 4 23:33:06 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - bsmith251, Sat Dec 4 23:38:06 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - umop_apisdn, Sat Dec 4 23:49:07 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - flamedcrestie, Sun Dec 5 00:35:22 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - bsmith251, Sun Dec 5 00:42:55 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - aliceinwl, Sun Dec 5 07:34:04 2004
• RE: I agree, I am getting a scope to learn how to do my - PHEve, Sun Dec 5 08:44:40 2004
• RE: I agree, I am getting a scope to learn how to do my - umop_apisdn, Sun Dec 5 11:56:47 2004
• RE: recommend some parasite treatments - Whoboy, Mon Dec 6 13:23:29 2004