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I am planning on getting some Prehensile-tailed skinks and they are recent imports. I realize getting imports is not the best idea, but oh well. The guy I am getting them from said he treated them once with Panacur for parasites. Is this safe for them to use? He said I may have to treat them agian for parasites, and that is fine. I saw panacur for sale on petmeds.com and figured it would be cheaper from them than from my vet. I just want to make sure I dont give them anything that would hurt them. Also, as new imports, would they need any protozan parasitical treatment? Thank you, jrbl

Panacur is safe if dosed correctly. It has a fairly wide margin of safety, but can still be dangerous if overdosed. Panacur will kill certain protozoans as well as worms. It seems to be fairly effective on Giardia.