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thank you for your answers and well wishes.
Reiko, i will keep Freddy and his surroundings meticiuously clean. I have Nolvasan at home (gallon size, i dilute it myself) which is a powerful yet safe disinfectant.
Cheri, the Vet gave me 7 doses of premixed Albon, to give for seven days. Then he wants me to bring in a fecal 2 weeks after treatment. If that one is clear, he wants me to bring in yet another one 2 weeks after that.
Also, he wants to know how my experience with parazap is going to be, while he will research it on the net himself, too.
And yes, $29 is very reasonable, i am lucky to have such a good and caring Vet.
He helped me pull my Ball Python rescue male through, and it was a long and tedious fight (recurring giardia and other problems we fought for over a year). This rescue male is now the healthy father of my first clutch of Ball Python Eggs. The Mother is also a rescue, although she wasn't as sick as the male.
Anyway, i just gave Freddy the second dose of Albon and i hope his appetite will improve. Good thing is that he has still been eating all the while and gaining....just not as fast as i thought, which made me decide to take him in, even though for all appearances and behavoir he seemed fine and healthy.
When should i start the parazap, since he is going through treatment right now?
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rep-r-us

fecals, before starting to use parazap, it is also used as a prevenative and to lower coccida amounts, so I would not do the two together, maybe the makers of it have other thought and you might want to contact them.

Your vet sounds like a gem!!! lucky you and your dragon.

Please make sure you use a probiotic while treating your dragon with albon to replace all the good bacteria that the meds are killing off.

Albon works by blocking emzynes that the coccidia needs to reproduce, it does not kill off the adult coccidia or oocysts. Time and your dragons immune system does that, your just giving him some help to not re-infect himself with the oocysts that are passed through his system in fecal matter.

How perceptive of you to notice a change in him and get him and a fecal into the vet!! I give you a virtual good keeper cookie to munch on!

Once people really get to know their dragons, spotting changes can make a world of difference in treatment results, you caught this very early and he is still healthy and able to deal with this with minimal problems..... so often they are not checked and treated til their systems are so run down, people have very sick dragons on their hands and hard to eat which they need so badly when being treated.

Keep us postede on how he is doing and we all send good dragon pats to him.

i would use the sudsy ammonia for the disinfecting, coccidia is pretty resistant to things such as bleach and i have not heard about anyone using novalsan for the disinfecting of enclosures for coccdia, the sudsy ammonia really works, just trying to help out, let usknow how he does.
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reiko
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