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I just recently purchaed an adult breeding group and one baby leo from a guy around my area. They are amazing looking. The down side is the male died 1 wk after I got them. The guy i bought them from said he was fine before I recieved them. Then his health turned and gone is he. Really sucks. I purchased the 25g paste panacur 10% from the bean farm. I am going to treat them all for worm just in case. The problem is the book I have (Understanding reptile Parasites, Roger J. Klingenberg) tells me how to dose out properly but only in the liquid form. I need to convert this to the 10% paste form and then I can treat according to the leo's weight in grams. Does anyone on here know the proper formula for this? I would really appreciate the help. I really dont want to lose these girls. Awesome orange in them and they I have never seen anything like the baby. thanks for the help.
Cody
ps. The new geckos are in isolation from the rest of my leos and snakes.

I would like to hear my dosage recommendation echoed before you treat them but I am pretty sure 10% is used 1ml/kg. First though, Generally an adult gecko with proper body weight takes more than a month to have dangerously low body weight even if it never ate. If you explain the temps./food/setup etc. and the geckos appearance before it passed maybe I can better help figure out what happened. Sorry for your loss

The geckos im wanting to treat are "just in case". Nothing seems to be wrong with them but I dont want to take that chance. The gecko that passed was large and healthy looking. Judging by the weight of my other males, the gecko would have bee btwn 55 and 65 grams. Looked healthy. the night I brought him home he was calm, and then he just didnt want to move at all. About 5 days later he died. The heat was at 87-88 on the warm end and bout 75 on the cool. Hides in both places with water bowl and dish of mealies with calcium always available. The seller claims that the gecko was fine before I bought him. Guess theres always a risk in buying from someone you dont really know. Any help would be appreciated. the geckos I want to treat are: 34g, 36g, 35g, and the baby is about 10g. I also have a few honduran milksnakes I will probably treat as well.
Cody

I doubt what caused the problem was related to a parasitic infestation. worms, protozoans, coccidia, and crypto all generally cause a slow decline in body weight before they pass. A dead 50 gram gecko is normally a result of something else. If it acted lethargic ever since you had it then i would assume it had some problem before you ever owned it. I would not count on the seller to be up front with you at this point and disregard their recommendations. Many things can cause what you described but you can never know exactly what it was. both exposure to heat too high or prey too big can cause neurological damage that will make a gecko act listless and die soon after. As for treating an unknown ailment on otherwise healthy geckos, i wouldnt recommend it unless you are willing to run panacur, flagyl, and humatin to rule out everything. A necropsy of the dead gecko would be cheaper and wouldnt cause unnecessary stress to the other geckos. This is why you quarantine your geckos from your hondos though until everything is peachy. Again, sorry for your loss and good luck. - Kyle