>All I could find after phoning several clinics
>was the pill form, no problem as I'm used to >grinding pills for tiny gex. It seems
>most vets >here have switched to Drontal (Drontel?) which >has another dewormer in it
>and is not suitable >for herps, at least not for Cestodes.
Drontal is Praziquantal and Pyrantel. The Prazi is for the cestodes. Pyrantel is for
nematodes. It is rarely used in place of the far more popular fenbendazole, but there
is no reason that one could not use it in a herp. Safety margin on both drugs is very
wide.
I suspect that Don's experience with Droncit has been somewhat rough. My experience
in a very wide variety of herps has been quite positive. I cannot say I could have
ever attributed a death to the material. Really sick gex dying after being de-wormed?
Yes, droncit killing an animal directly? Nope. The TI is something like 1-2 orders
of magnitude. Pyrantel is good for the same TI in some species.
Have your vets check out the appropriate section of Jim Carpenters Exotic Animal
Formulary.
Keith
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