Hello all~
A couple of months ago, I lost one of my favorite snakes. His diagnosis prior to death was flagellated protozoa. He passed less then a week later and the necropsy revealed necrotizing colitis and bacteria.
I've been raising my own feeders, so I'm concerned that they are the carriers. I've made sure to freeze off any of the ones I euthanize for feeders since. Going to do a round of dewormings on them. I've been keeping an eye on my collection of reptiles as well.
There haven't been any other snakes with symptoms like my male. The last female I paired him with has just laid eggs yesterday, so now that she's done I've been thinking of deworming her.
He could have been a case of a poor immune system or some underlying autoimmune issue... But I'm thinking of treating my collection with panacur/Fenbendazole just in case.
I know how much they hate being wrestled for it, so I wanted to see what others thought about injecting the medication subcutaneously into a small prey item before feeding it to them? I know a couple of my younger snakes would have no problem taking 3 very small meals in a row. I feel like this would be the best way to get the snake to take the proper dose with the least amount of stress.
Has anyone had to do this before? Or am I possibly overthinking and just treating the rats should be enough?
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