Yes, I use disposable gloves and clean thoroughly and put gex in a clean terrarium every night. Unfortunately there are no safe cleaners that are guaranteed to kill oocysts, so washing really well is the best option. Extreme heat will work, but would melt my acrylic vivaria. Apparently some coccidia can form cysts or pockets in the intestinal wall that can rupture anytime, so later recurrences are always possible.
You right, treatment without good hygiene is a waste of time. Neil >Did you practice *sterile* cage techniques? When treating cocci I >keep the cage as bare as possible. I remove the animal daily and >disinfect the cage and all its *furniture*. This keeps reinfection >to a minimum. >Cyndy > >Hi Russ, > >3 days on Albon at 50mg/kg, 3 rest and 3 more on >and 6 days straight when the first routine did not work. >Both helped, but did not eliminate >coccidia in all cases. So far it looks like 3 out of >8 geckos have been successfully treated. > >Neil > >>Hi Neil, out of curiosity what treatments have you tried? >> >>Russ >> > > >-- >Neil Meister > >Promotions Secretary >Global Gecko Association >http://www.gekkota.com > >President >Nova Scotia Herpetoculture Society > >########################################################################### > THE GLOBAL GECKO ASSOCIATION LISTSERV > WebSite: www.gekkota.com Archive: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > The GGA takes no responsibility for the contents of these postings. >########################################################################### -- Neil Meister Semaphor Design Company Inc. 6450 Young St. Suite 4, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3L 2A3 Phone: (902) 455-0133 Fax: (902) 455-0212 http://www.semaphor.ca
