Someone expressed concern over the Flagyl dose I quoted. So I thought I’d post my reply here for others who may share the concern to read.

I've run the dose I quoted by several people (including my friend who is a clinical physician as well as an infectious disease expert (working on biological warfare grant). I've also consulted other people in the field who deal with Cresteds and have used the same dosage. Certainly you can use a smaller dose, say 100mg/kg, and be effective through multiple doses. You should also consider the reality of giving a dose of 25mg/kg to a 2-3g reptile. The dose using a 50mg/ml suspension is something like .0016ml - being accurate with such a small size presents a significant challenge.

I believe that unless you have repeated frequent treatments with this compound, there's not a great risk of teratogenic or mutagenic effects. However I would not treat any animals that are currently producing eggs with that dose or any other dose unless they showed signs of illness. The dose of 250mg/kg was tolerated well by the few geckos I've dosed both directly and via a food source. But a lower dose, like 50-100mg/kg, may be just as effective if delivered accurately and is certainly more on the safe side.

Thanks again,
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-Randy May
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• Disease Causing Organism in Captive Crested Gecko Population - NeoScales, Thu Dec 16 11:23:38 2004
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• RE: Disease Causing Organism in Captive Crested Gecko Population - NeoScales, Thu Dec 16 17:25:31 2004
• Quoted Flagyl Dose.... - NeoScales, Thu Dec 16 17:43:15 2004
• Great job, Randy. - AnthonyCaponetto, Thu Dec 16 18:11:35 2004
• very informational - flamedcrestie, Thu Dec 16 18:52:02 2004
• RE: Disease Causing Organism in Captive Crested Gecko Population - Allen_Repashy, Thu Dec 16 19:58:22 2004
• RE: THANK YOU - gecco, Thu Dec 16 22:06:41 2004
• RE: Disease Causing Organism in Captive Crested Gecko Population - drkfantasy, Fri Dec 17 01:04:54 2004
• RE: Excellent work! - CrestedGecko.com, Fri Dec 17 15:03:05 2004