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Does anyone have the recommended dosing amounts for Panacur, 100mg/ml? I need to treat several snakes, adult corns, and I need to know how much to give, per body weight and how often.

The instructions on the bottle say to give it once a day for 3 days, wait a week and repeat for 2 more intervals...but the 15 ml dosage is for my retic! LOL!

Help please!

On the parasite you are treating. Recommended doses are usually 25-50 mg per kg of snake given once a week for 2 or 3 weeks. You'll have to do some math to work out the fractions, my adults range from 400-800 grams. However, for some stronger parasites such as lungworms, dosages between 50-100 mg per kg may be needed. Your best bet would be to ask your vet if they would give you a quantity discount and bring them all in. Good Luck!

Oh, crud! I was hoping you wouldn't say that. I'm in a bind right now and even at a "quantity discount," a vet bill would put me under.

I lost one of my cornsnakes last week and I'm really worried because she was housed with 3 others. When she died, I found itty bitty little worms in her mouth. I just want to treat the other 3 to make sure they're ok.

Sounds like Lungworms to me, you may want to go with the higher dose. Anytime you go out on your own without a vets care can be risky. If seeing the vet is not an option, I'd seperate all the snakes try the higher dose with one of them as a "guinea snake" as you will, to see how it turns out. Make sure you keep them super clean. However, to get these measurements correct you will probably have to get a gram scale that measures to the hundreth, in that case you'd be spending as much as a vet bill anywho. On the other end, if you are going to be keeping reptiles, a gram scale is a good investment anyway. Just somethings to throw out there.

I've been looking at gram scales for a while now but I have yet to find one that I like at a price that I like so I know what you mean! LOL! Right now, I'll have to make due with my kitchen scale that weighs in pounds and ounces and then convert it.

A friend of mine send me a male anery cornsnake and I had my female anery housed with him last summer, hoping for a mating. Shortly after, he died and had a massive amount of worms in his mouth. I had my female anery alone in her own sweaterbox for a couple months and she seemed to be fine. I was hoping that since they were only together a short time, she'd be ok.

When the temperature cooled down, I put her in with a trio of other corns so that she'd have warmth. She had been sharing their tank for about a month. Now that she just died, I'm very worried about my breeding trio as the worm problem clearly went from the anery male to anery female in a short amount of time. The worms had plenty of time to go to my trio.

If no one here knows the dosage amounts, I may call the vet and see if he'll help me without a visit. Just to walk in the door, it will be 36 bucks a critter so that's over a hundred right there!

I decided to go surfing for my answers, despite that I'd prefer hearing it from someone personally who has experience with this. I found Melissa's page and it says 50 to 100 mgs per kg. 50 to 100...That's a huge jump! What are your thoughts on this, Carol?

That is the correct dosage for snakes. I'm surprised Melissa got it right, she must have copied from the right sight or book. Panacur is a very forgiving med. it's pretty hard to mess up with it. You can get a good gram scale at Walmart for $20 in the stationary department (postal scale). imho
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LOL! I saw it posted on another site just after I looked at Melissa Kaplan's. Evidently it's all over the place and if she had gotten it wrong, she would have looked really dumb.

50-100mg/kg is right for lung worms. I have had experience with them before. Lungworms can go unnoticed in a snake for quite sometime, it is taxing on them but sometimes not enough to alert an untrained eye. One of my females had them and seemed to be fine, however after laying 20 eggs and second clutching with another 20 (and cutting her lower "lip" restlessly searching for a comfortable place to lay *I ended up having to fill her entire sweater box with moss*) Her immune system just couldn't do it all, she came down with double pneamonia. She refused to eat and was very thin. The vet even missed the worms and just treated the pneamonia (sp?) and after many tube feedings of baby food and baytril, the RI was gone, she had gained weight, but still refused to eat and wheezed. A fecal found the problem and the large dose of panacur did the trick. You may want to see if your vet will just do fecal floats on the three, often vets will agree to do floats without seeing your snake. My vet charges around $12 per float, and that may help alot in pinpointing what parasite you are dealing with.

Oh! Just a fecal...That's a good idea! Thank you!

My female anery that just died, had a lot of fluid in her. I thought she just had a respitory infection...it wasn't until she actually died that I found the worms in her mouth. She also didn't have much of an appetite and was a little thin.