Hello!
I am new to these forums and new to Bearded Dragons in general, but not ignorant about them.
Recently my bearded dragon was looking extra thin and not eating so I took him to the vet and got a poop check done, sure enough he has Coccidia and I think they said roundworm, ringworm, something like that.
Anyways, at the vet they gave him a deworming called Flagyl. Now, I've read up on normal Coccidia treatments and I haven't really read anything about Flagyl. They also mentioned something that started with a B I think. Some other treatment. They said this deworming should treat the coccidia and worms he has, but I never heard of this type of treatment. I am also going back on Sunday for some other treatment( Not sure what they are going to do at that time ). Is this type of treatment normal? Do they know what they are even doing?
I set up paper towels as the substrate and am using the bottoms of paper cups to hold food and water, and cardboard as basking spots. But what good would any of this do if the treatment they gave him doesn't treat coccidia? So that's basically my question to people who are familiar with coccidia treatments. I'm gonna call them up tomorrow and ask what kinda treatment will be done on Sunday.
Thanks for your help!
P.S.- My bearded is around 4-6 months aprox, maybe less or more. The only thing that has a chance of getting the dragon reinfected with coccidia is him eating his own poop ( which he never does ) or him sitting next to his poop. I read that the poop crapped out during treatment is dead cells, so it shouldn't reinfect him? And he is eating freeze dried gut loaded crickets, amazingly, so I am not worried about him getting reinfected from crickets eating his poop. Plus I am at home alot so I can clean it pretty quickly. The max the poop would go uncleaned is about 1-2hours. If even that.
