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Anyone have experience with WC hondos? I've got a pair on their way and was curious about worming techniques/dosages. I prefer captive bred but couldn't pass up the opportunity. . . anything can crop up from WC snakes!
-Cole

"couldn't pass up the opportunity. . . anything can crop up from WC snakes!"

can you elaborate?

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that I'd come across something new. Chances are that I won't get anything unusual. Just got my fingers crossed. If I do end up with something, you'll be the first to know, Terry, so don't worry!.
-Cole

Thanks for the reply. No, I wasn't thiinking that. I was questioning the idea, which perhaps you weren't presenting, that there was any better chance of getting something interesting from WC hondos than from captive bred ones. I'd think the odds are considerably better with captive bred specimens. People usually turn to wild caught stock in an effort to introduce new "blood" into their concentrated-gene-pool captive animals, rather than introducing WCs in hopes of getting something new. While the anerythristic first appeared in wild caught specimens, i can't think of a scenario, at least, that suggests better odds of new things popping up among babies from WCs than from captive breds. But if anybody out there can suggest such a situation, i'd be glad to hear it.
peace
td
but i do appreciate your offer to tell me if you come up with something interesting.

I completely agree...Captive Stock is much more likely to be "het for something". It was late when I typed that post, even I don't know what I meant! I was basically just looking for suggestion on worming. The reptile vets in my area a unexperienced to say the least. Unfortunately, I seem to know more about exotic medicine than they do, and that's not saying much=( I've been using Pancure(Safeguard) with success, but was wondering what others used to purge roundworms and tapeworms.
thanks
-Cole