Mamaneedscoffee
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So we adopted (‘rescued’) a ~14 month old beardie from another family on June 20 and found upon pickup that his husbandry had been sorely lacking… fixed all of the known issues and became concerned about weird looking yellowish areas on his flanks and side. (First beardie, no real frame of reference just thought it didn’t look right after reading lots about BD’s and YFD.) Consulted our regular vet for an exotics referral and took him for appt on 6/29. Brought a fecal sample as well considering the noxious odor he had been producing.
Vet wasn’t allowing ‘parents’ inside so the dragon went in and I had to talk to him on the phone while he did the exam… he hemmed and hawed about YFD and said he didn’t think so but was sending pictures to a ‘specialist’ in Canada. (We’re in NY.) I asked about skin scraping test and he said he didn’t think those were very accurate and didn’t want to subject him to a biopsy and would look into a PCR test but warned that it would be expensive. Said beardie was underweight and to increase his feeds and offer insects more frequently than previous owners’ 1x per week. Charged $300 for the visit and sent us home with a promise to call with blood work and fecal results the next day.
I had to harass the office for 3 days before finally getting a call back with results. Apparently his blood work was okay, but fecal came back high for pinworms and coccidia(isospira) told me to come back to pick up pinworm medication and other meds would be special ordered. I asked whether there was a place I could source them more quickly myself and he said no. ?? (Found beardeddragon.co later) First dose of panacur was 7/2-instructions to give one dose every 2 weeks. (Seems weird but ok.)
After multiple follow up calls and literally having credit card in hand to order toltrazuril we got a call that the ponazuril was finally in on 7/13… first dose given same day. (Ponazuril 40mg/ml - give .25ml once every two weeks for a total of four doses.)
Tl;dr Our 380g beardie is getting 10mg of Ponazuril once every 2 weeks per the vet… this doesn’t seem to match up with dosing info I’m seeing here and elsewhere… I’m wondering whether we’re setting ourselves up for reinfecting failure even while we bust our butts cleaning and disinfecting his enclosure.?
Also his weird skin spots still look weird to me but maybe I’m just being paranoid about yellowy stuck shed. ? (can’t remember how to post a pic in a message board??)
Vet wasn’t allowing ‘parents’ inside so the dragon went in and I had to talk to him on the phone while he did the exam… he hemmed and hawed about YFD and said he didn’t think so but was sending pictures to a ‘specialist’ in Canada. (We’re in NY.) I asked about skin scraping test and he said he didn’t think those were very accurate and didn’t want to subject him to a biopsy and would look into a PCR test but warned that it would be expensive. Said beardie was underweight and to increase his feeds and offer insects more frequently than previous owners’ 1x per week. Charged $300 for the visit and sent us home with a promise to call with blood work and fecal results the next day.
I had to harass the office for 3 days before finally getting a call back with results. Apparently his blood work was okay, but fecal came back high for pinworms and coccidia(isospira) told me to come back to pick up pinworm medication and other meds would be special ordered. I asked whether there was a place I could source them more quickly myself and he said no. ?? (Found beardeddragon.co later) First dose of panacur was 7/2-instructions to give one dose every 2 weeks. (Seems weird but ok.)
After multiple follow up calls and literally having credit card in hand to order toltrazuril we got a call that the ponazuril was finally in on 7/13… first dose given same day. (Ponazuril 40mg/ml - give .25ml once every two weeks for a total of four doses.)
Tl;dr Our 380g beardie is getting 10mg of Ponazuril once every 2 weeks per the vet… this doesn’t seem to match up with dosing info I’m seeing here and elsewhere… I’m wondering whether we’re setting ourselves up for reinfecting failure even while we bust our butts cleaning and disinfecting his enclosure.?
Also his weird skin spots still look weird to me but maybe I’m just being paranoid about yellowy stuck shed. ? (can’t remember how to post a pic in a message board??)