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I purchased Equine 10% Panacur paste under the assumption that I could just dissolve it in water to get a smaller suspension that I could use on some of my snakes (I have a microscope and I'm going to get more practice doing fecals). Well this paste is apparently not soluble in water so it is useless to me since it is 100mg/g suspension. Does anyone else have a solution? I tried to mix it with olive oil just to experiment and that didn't work either. I also tried heating the mixture and nothing. The paste just settles in white clumbs on the bottom.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Jessica

Why do you need to dilute it? How small are your snakes?
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Stacey

I need to dilute it because for my smallest snake (18g) I need .9mg (.018kg x 50mg/kg)and the problem is that my weighing scale has an accuracy of 1 gram. So I weighed out 4 grams of 100mg/g paste (400mg panacur) and added 100ml of water to get a suspension of 4mg/ml. I have many 1cc syringes to measure out .9mg. But the paste doesn't dissolve. My largest snake would need .414g of paste and I have the same weighing problem. I'm looking into getting a better scale.
Thanks
Jessica

The powder is not much better. I just shake vigorously and immediately withdraw what I need, and shake again for the next dosage.
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I would do as colchicine says with the paste add water as needed to dilute and use immediately. You do not need to weigh it on the scale, Panacur paste is 100mg/ml (That is what 10% means). But with an 18 gram snake it is easier to dilute to a 10mg/ml concentration.
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Stacey