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Can someone help me determine what this is? I know the pics are bad but technology is not my strong point.

Well, with no further clues, I'm guessing it a fecal slide and those are ova of a parisitic worm. If so, I'd futher guess some species of "round worm" How's that?

See, round worm was what we were thinking. There were some slides showing some more which looked like a form of coccidia which was sort of atypical of what you would normally think of. Anyway, after two panacure treatments the fecals look clean...likely suggest worm of coccidia. But I wonder how long I should keep looking.

Thanks for the round worm vote

Sure seems then they were ascarids and your Tx worked. Coccidia would appear relatively smaller and would persisted after Tx,I should think. The animal was/is now asymptomatic? If so, I'd do a six month follow-up if that.
What critter produced the specimen?

She is actually a black tail cribo I got recently. I got her at tinley park (an all cb show) and was told she was supposedly cb but the guy selling it for someone had his doubts since she was a terrible feeder. She was pretty tiny but after I got her I read how Ben Seigle got in some small bt cribos this year.

Anyway, she seems in good health otherwise but there is a small bump on her side (it also appears to be deminishing without treatment). Nobody really wants to lance her.

She is eating well but is very shy.

A lot of the other photos I have consist of even smaller parasites in similar appearance and there were a few which were paired like coccidia.

Since the fecals have been showing up clean I have been getting a little lazy on the "quarantine procedures" so I want someone to smack some sense in me and tell me to put the latex gloves back on and nolvasan the heck out of everything frequently.

You took a chance; you had her for a couple of months; she's better but you still afraid of the risk she still may pose to the rest of your collection. Also sounds like you know what you should do...better safe than sorry.

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A longshot possibility is tapeworm. Most likely is ascarid/roundworm or even plant material which can sometimes appear to look like a parasite (pseudoparasite). Typically the pseudoparasite is seen in animals with lots of vegatation in their diet such as box turtles.. depending on what a carnivore eats it could come from their prey item's stomach content.
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