Coccidia /Albon not working

[hill202]

Yes, really good to hear ! Expiration date doesn't seem to be a factor. Still consider putting her in a smaller tank set up.

Thanks for researching that. She should update that paper. I'll bet she gets calls about it.

 

[hill202]

That's great news!
Just be sure to clean and clean again so she doesn't reinfect herself. Now we just need to get her feeling better. She took her last dose, correct? She's probably feeling pretty lousy after this whole ordeal, poor little girl.

It's so clean that even Kingofnobby will be proud. 8)

 

[hill202]

Nada..not even one, which is less than yesterday. I won't post any more of these, unless there is a change, God forbid.

 

[AHBD]

Wow,must be very encouraging for you to see that. And eating a few waxworms is better than nothing. She's getting SOME nutrition and their fattiness makes it like she's eating more volume of other insects.

 

[hill202]

I can't even begin to tell you how good it feels.

We still have a long way to go in regards to weight loss and appetite. I know I'm creating a problem with the wax worms but it does not seem right to hold back the only thing she will eat a little of.

They are great for giving her meds. I take an insulin needle and inject it, calcium, into the worm.

And just to see what would happen, I injected one worm with repta boost..... the worm busted out the enclosure doors.



Not really, the worm died

 

[AHBD]

A new type of superworm ! :lol:

 

[kingofnobbys]

Encouraging , that's for sure. Not time to let up on the treatment / sterilization regime - yet.

I've tried injecting antibiotics into a worm and into a cricket (I had to give the stuff to a skink orally and he hated the taste of it !! huge YUCK response !!! and temper tantrum and made it very hard to give his medicine to him).

Injecting meds into the insects was a huge FAIL.... he refused the injected bugs !!! he knew the stuff was inside them .

 

[traildrifterphalanx]

A new type of superworm ! :lol:

That's a knee-slapper for ya

 

[hill202]

She weighs 53 grams today.

keep this up and she will need to go on a diet :bikerwave:

 

[hill202]

I'm quickly getting a wax worm problem. She has eaten 9 today. She will not even look at anything else.

I'm at a loss as to what to do about it.

 

[AHBD]

Give it some time + then start to with hold the waxies + offer other insects. Then one day it will happen, she'll eat a cricket or a dubia + you'll do a happy dance.

I forget, have you tried large BSFL [ Phoenix or calci worms ? ]

 

[hill202]

No, I have not tried those. I would like to try Silkworms but they seem pretty difficult to find.

 

[hill202]

My vet has prescribed Ponazuril for coccidia 20mg/ml suspension from a veterinary compounding pharmacy. It seemed to work well.

I never thanked you for this, thank you. I want to hear more abut that Herpstat 2 of yours. I suppose the ER forum is not the place to ask. Although it is kind of health related.

 

[CooperDragon]

What would you like to know about it? It has two outlets and two temp probes. I set one on the basking surface and that controls the basking light by dimming it to keep the probe reading within a specified range (100-105 in my case). It has a setting to ramp up and ramp down so it slowly brings the light up and turns it off like a sunset rather than sudden on/off. The other probe is on the cool side floor and is set to control the heat projector. It turns on at night as needed to keep the probe reading above 70 and shuts off at 73 so it maintains a good overnight temperature even on cool nights. It's mostly just off in the summer.

 

[hill202]

That sounds nice. So, it has timers that allow you to have it turn completely on and off at certain times, and while it's on, it will adjust the light as needed to maintain a certain temp., right?

If I'm understanding it correctly, I gotta have one.

Do you like it?

I see where they have the 'Redline' edition, snazzy looking.