Brock, crpto is all but impossible to cure and panacur is not effective at all against it. I'm sorry but my handbook on reptile parasites isn't handy so I can'y quote directly from it but the only listed treatment is with flagyl. Its "understanding reptile parasites" I got it from the bean farm and it is very good.

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In the book they will tell you crpto is next to impossible to cure but recomends flagyl saying if there is a chance its early on.
At $12 this book is good to have. It'll give you a working knowledge on identifing a problem, its cause and its treatment. Buy it, you'll thank me.

You don't need PHD to understand whats written as some I have. My wife bought me one written by a vet for vets which was about $150. Its dry as hell to read and I'm not ashamed to say as I don't have a veternary degree alot of it goes over my head. As thick as it is I got so much more workable knowledge from that $12 book.

I'm not one to raise the white flag and have brought snakes back from deaths door from a number of different malodys including lung worm infestations.
I have lost two to what I suspect was crpto before I had much understanding on parasites and what was going on. Those two had intesional bulges that I credited as impaction at the time.
I suspect that it would have marched through my collection if I had not stepped up my efforts on cleanliness.
Later on a new asian blue beauty introduced lung worms to my collection that those damned gnats spread around. With an eleventh hour cram learning all I could about parasites and a trip to the vet for antibiotics along with dosing the whole collection with panacur and flagyl saved most of what I had.
You know a good reptile vet is a rarity.
I went to a VCA clinic that had a reptile vet. Funny thing was that she used her general vet knowledge and bounced the reptile related questions off of me for what I knew and used my resource manuals on reptile veternary care for dosing and treatment.
Made me feel like who was helping who?
I did get antibiotics and needles. That I couldn't get elsewhere.
The bill was healthy to.

Now I use what I've learned myself and knock wood, I can tackle most health issues that pop up.
Back to crypto, the two that I had buldges in, if I saw that now I'd use flagyl but with it gone so far unchecked to show intestinal blockages of crypto, I wouldn't have much hope.
Got to get to them early. All of the previously mentioned symptoms along with runny stool, I'd go ahead and dose with panacur and flagyl...if you can get flagyl in liquid form

I got mine from a vet that sold it on this site in a liquid form which was imported from mexico. Seems they use it down there to cure "Montizuma's revenge"
All you get through US suppliers is in tablet form for dogs which you could crush and convert to liquid suspension (proper dosing is sketchy though)

Ok,I might as well touch on lung worms while I'm at it.
Symtoms: wheezing, open mouth breathing, regurge which can sometimes be filled with blood. Sounds really bad and it is but I've brought snakes back from all these symptoms with panacur and antibiotic. This was then followed with Nutribac to "reset" the digestive system.

Sorry to say it isn't a perfected science yet but as I said I'm not one to raise the white flag. The key is to educate yourself on it to indentify the problem, find the cause, and give proper treatment. Then as you've found the cause work on preventing it from happening again because if you don't, it will.
Mike.

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