KairaandTaz08
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Yeah, they are both getting big! I'm happy to hear Tank is doing so much better. 
That's got to be such a relief. About the taking him to the vet. Even if he does have parasites, it doesn't mean you have to actually give him the meds. They can rid themselves of parasites on their own. I'm not saying you should take him, though. You know what's best for him. I chose to treat for several reasons, one was because of the high counts, but I won't go into detail about everything. If their counts had been lower to start with, I wouldn't have put them on the meds. After I get them free of parasites, I'll still get their fecals checked at least once a month, but I won't put them on medication unless the counts are extremely high. Plus, I'm about to upgrade their tanks. Kaira's moving to a 75 gallon and Taz a 40. So, with the stress of the move, they'll need to be watched closely. I'd rather not move them, but Taz is getting too big for his cage and Kaira is too. They still need to have a few tests done, but we need to do them in a certain order, so it may take a couple of weeks. We'll see where it goes from there.
They've never been caged together, though. We also wash our hands between holding them or any of their things. They're in the same room, but never come in contact with one another. That doesn't prevent the spread of everything, but they aren't passing parasites back and forth from one another. They never touch anything the other one has either, different feeding tubs, bath tubs, "furniture", everything.
I'm still working on the pictures...still super busy.
Actually, we don't feed silkies anymore. There are some risks that go along with them and we don't want to chance it. I'm allergic to roaches, so we can't go that route either. We're kind of forced to feed crickets now. They get PWs and butterworms (if I find ones small enough for Taz). How big is Tank now? I thought about trying supers for Kaira, but I've always read you're supposed to wait until they are about 16" long and/or 6 months old. I want to quit crickets asap (as they are the feeder most likely to carry parasites), but Taz still has a ways to go before he's large enough for supers. Supers don't have the risk (at least that I know of) of parasites as crickets do or at least not as much of one.
I hope he likes the silkies, though.
Abi
That's got to be such a relief. About the taking him to the vet. Even if he does have parasites, it doesn't mean you have to actually give him the meds. They can rid themselves of parasites on their own. I'm not saying you should take him, though. You know what's best for him. I chose to treat for several reasons, one was because of the high counts, but I won't go into detail about everything. If their counts had been lower to start with, I wouldn't have put them on the meds. After I get them free of parasites, I'll still get their fecals checked at least once a month, but I won't put them on medication unless the counts are extremely high. Plus, I'm about to upgrade their tanks. Kaira's moving to a 75 gallon and Taz a 40. So, with the stress of the move, they'll need to be watched closely. I'd rather not move them, but Taz is getting too big for his cage and Kaira is too. They still need to have a few tests done, but we need to do them in a certain order, so it may take a couple of weeks. We'll see where it goes from there.They've never been caged together, though. We also wash our hands between holding them or any of their things. They're in the same room, but never come in contact with one another. That doesn't prevent the spread of everything, but they aren't passing parasites back and forth from one another. They never touch anything the other one has either, different feeding tubs, bath tubs, "furniture", everything.
I'm still working on the pictures...still super busy.
Actually, we don't feed silkies anymore. There are some risks that go along with them and we don't want to chance it. I'm allergic to roaches, so we can't go that route either. We're kind of forced to feed crickets now. They get PWs and butterworms (if I find ones small enough for Taz). How big is Tank now? I thought about trying supers for Kaira, but I've always read you're supposed to wait until they are about 16" long and/or 6 months old. I want to quit crickets asap (as they are the feeder most likely to carry parasites), but Taz still has a ways to go before he's large enough for supers. Supers don't have the risk (at least that I know of) of parasites as crickets do or at least not as much of one.
I hope he likes the silkies, though.
Abi
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