Parasites are not a problem with captive reptiles, they never have been a problem.
The first and foremost problem is husbandry, this is why you can’t fix a husbandry problem by treating reptiles for parasites. 100% keepers doing this are failing at one point or another.

An other myth of herpetoculture involves the use of UV bulbs, many keepers are now having success without them.

Reptiles products are evolving a lot faster then reptile husbandry, this is wrong and should be reversed, husbandry should dictate what products our animals need, its from experience that we get a better understanding of the animals we keep, then we can design products that serve a purpose.

However as we speech the entire industries is base on profits, if I make it easy for you to keep that new import without the use of drugs or products, then only you will profit from my knowledge. Seriously there would be no need for 80% of what’s available at your local shop, and your first lizard will live past its first year of import, now that’s unexpected. Can you imagine if all those disposable imports actually survived one year? Do you have any idea what this represent in $$, this would be enough for existing companies to manufacture products with a limited life, you see where I am getting at?
If you cant make a profit over animals you make it elsewhere, likely if the vets cant make profits with reptiles they stop treating them, in fact no so long ago no vets wanted to touch them in anyway, the reason was simple, animal medicine is base on mammalians, and they have a totally different metabolism.

I know for a fact and understand why-how wormers affect reptiles, they lead to organ failure, this often 1-2 years after treatment, its common for treated reptiles to never produce fertile eggs, however most pros will argue this.

But the fact is most parasites have a beneficial affect on reptiles, bad husbandry allows them to grow in numbers at the detriment of the host, however when allowed good conditions these overloads of parasites are expulsed within a few days, this naturally at no expense for the reptiles.

Normally parasite allow for a strong immune system, anything sterile is dead or dieing.
I keep babies with or in imports cages, been doing this forever and never lost an animal.

If you really what to learn how insignificant parasites are, go to your nearest shop and take whatever dieing lizards you get free, just hydrate the poor thing and give it good conditions, do this until you succeed more then you fail, you will improve every time until you see as I do.

The hard part of this hubby is to discard the crappie husbandry practise we are fed by unsuccessful keepers.
Educating others in this regard is like swimming against courant, with time you get tired and frustrated.
Seeing peoples kill your babies year after year eventually make you irritable and inpatient, I know this is my case, surly it doesn’t mean I don’t want to help, it simply means I wish keepers understood more of what I say, but then its like many things in life, I can walk a mile in your shows but you wont burn the calories.

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