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When Morgana was seen by the vet she was diagnosed with parasites, and treated for worms. The vet gave her a little bit of some white, pasty looking stuff, and gave me enough for one more dose a week later (I don't remember the Rx name for it). Then he gave me some batryl which I gave 1cc a day for 10 days(this stuff smells like coconut/vanilla and is brownish in color, its consistency is that of a runny milk shake).

My questions are:
-Does anyone know if this "white stuff" was for the parasites or the worms?
-Exactly what is batyrl for?
-Now that the 10 days is up should I have her retested for parasites, or just wait a few months?
-Is it bad to continue to give her batryl, just to be safe? I'm not sure if this is some sort of antibiotic or what?

Thanks,
-Derek

is the white stuff, you can get a tube of it (enough to treat 100s of animals) at the petsmart/petco/Petsplus/agway store
it is in the HORSE section, and you have to dilute it to 1 part to 9 parts distilled water, and the vet will tell you how much Morgaina needs (Erowen needs 0.1cc per week, x5 doses, over one month)
and from what I have learned, they get most of the parasites from Crickets, not so much from Meal/Superworms, and the Nightcrawlers will only have it if its in their Dirt (if you buy from petstore/baitshop then they might be raised on horse Manure, and the HORSES had tapeworm, so the worms got it)

Am I making sense??

I have resigned myself to getting each animal checked every year, and treating only if they need it

Oh and good job on the dripper/fogger, if you are syphoning off excess water, I forgot to mention, the tubing needs a loop before it goes up to go in the bottom container, then if the suction is broken, and more water fills the bottom of the top tank (just a bit) you ca get the water trapped in the tube to flow, by raising it above the edge of the lower resevoir, and start the suction working agian
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Excellent! Thank you so much, the vet charged me 12$ for .2cc's (I think I forgot the decimal in my previous post, oops!). I think its a little pricey, but he treated her and gave me a bunch of oral syringes, so I guess it was kind of worth it.

Do you know about how much it will run?