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I just ordered parazap after doing a fecal on my baby beardie and having the vet tell me that he has 4 three different bacteria (coccidia, flagelates and motile)...YUCK! But I wanted to treat my otherwise healthy young corn just in case. Is the best way to administer it to just inject the tea into a f/t pinkie at the next couple of feedings? It says that you need to give it for 5 consecutive days, just provide the tea instead of water? Any help is greatly appriciated.
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Jamie
0.0.1 corn (Rio)
0.0.1 beardie (Koda)

If your corn is healthy why medicate it?And if it is infested flagyl and panacur are the way to go.There time proven and tested.Parazap just gives reptiles a bad case of the green apple splatters.Im not even sure you can use it on snakes.Beardies have a high metabolism compared to snakes and can pass it faster.There's a good rule i always follow:If it aint broke dont fix it.....Paul

Unless you had them housed together (a beardie and a corn??? but ok...), or don't wash your hands between handling, there shouldn't be a problem...All you'd be doing is putting poison into your snake for no reason.

if it bad for the corn then I will just let her be. I thought parazap was more like a preventive measure that was ok as a "just in case". but it looks like that was just for the beardies. Thanks for the correction!
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Jamie
0.0.1 corn (Rio)
0.0.1 beardie (Koda)

Parazap is a preventive measure typically for lizards. It is made of all natural herbs if I recall correctly. I don't see a need to use it on snakes at all. In fact I really dont' see a need to use it on bearded dragons either. If the bearded dragon is healthy, in the proper conditions and has a stress free environment, it's own body can prevent heavy parasite infections all by itself. Its the same with us taking echinacia (or however that is spelled) to prevent getting a cold or flu. I never use the stuff and I rarely get a cold or flu, unless I let myself get run down or over tired.

When i bought my beardies i use to hang in the bearded forum but they drove me nuts.Most dont understand that they use bacteria to break down there food.If your beardies daily dumps smell like a rotted cow maybe it needs a vet,otherwise it's fine.Im not slamming you it's just after a couple days reading posts in the beardie forum i thought my dragons had the plague,leprosy,and smallpox.Those guys over there treat there reptiles better than i treat my family.hehehehe...Paul