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i've just got another black throat after taking Shav advise and now i've discover he has ticks, please help me out i dont have the drugs to cure it at my place any tips? and if your state sell them i'll be wiling to buy them from you.....

np

you don't necessarily need meds to remove ticks, but you DON'T just want to rip them off either, parts of them can get stuck in the monitor and get infected and such. i'd recommend taking him to a vet and having the vet remove them properly
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1.3 Uromastyx Maliensis (Ricky, Quinn, Anna, Drusilla)
0.2 Varanus Timorensis (Zealot, Willow)
1.1 Varanus Acanthurus (Eddie, Roxie)
0.0.1 Uromastyx Aegypticus (Kronk)
0.0.2 Ceratophrys Ornata (Mojo, Jabba)
0.1 Geochelone Carbonaria (Turtle)
1.1 Rhacodactylus Ciliatus (Smeagol, Miss Peaches)

Emily
www.egomantra.com/npoh

Just pull them off.. The whole thing about their heads being able to come off and remaining in the wound is mostly a myth. It can happen but isn't likely. You just pull ticks off....I do it with my sister's outside cats all the time and the wounds heal up just fine with no problem.
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Lucien

1.0 Columbian Redtail Boa (BCI)
2.1 Leopard geckos (2 Blizzard and 1 het Blizzard)
0.1 Savannah Monitor
13 rats
12 Gerbils
2 Dogs
3 cats
1 Albino Corey (fish)

Long night of using bright lights, tweezers, those magnifying things that you wear on your head with lots of patience in restraining the animal and checking closely and pulling them off. Several adults in the nostrils, several in the ears, under the chin, neck, and tons of nymphs from the neck all of the way to the tail base. I only used alcohol in the ears after wards.
Id be willing to try black knight, then remove any dead reminants.

Hi,
With needle-nose tweezers or fine tipped tweezers, remove the ticks, both large and small and put them into a jar of alcohol and seal it - they will drown. Do not put them in the trash with the Whoo-hash, in a box with goldilocks, etc...the most common species is Aponomma exornatum (Koch, 1844), Amblyomma marmoreum, and a few others. I removed 253 ticks from some V. albigularis and there was 1 nasty tick that could carry Q-fever (African Journal of Ecology, 38:362-364, 2000), a communicable disease to humans (most often seen from tortoises??).

cheers,
mbayless

Hey mark, is there anything you don't have information on? I've gotta check out your archive someday....

bob

Hi Bob,
YES, there are alot of things I have little/no info on concerning varanus - and that is the fun part....its alot of fun when sources written a few hundred years ago can support recent data collected, i.e. is V. griseus saliva toxic? That is one I am trying to find out now?? But Syrians, ancient/modern Egyptians, Babylonians (Iraq), North Africa bediuns all said it was - are they wrong just because they said is 3,500 years ago?
Maybe, maybe not??

YOU'RE WELCOME HERE ANYTIME....I am moving my whale (Cetacea) collections into boxes and into a closet so I can put more info in the file cabinets....only studied whales 30 years....since I saw Kianu Killer whale = largest whale in captivity and a beached gray whale in 1969.
cheers,
mark