so... i know all about ivermectin and its use in livestock and whatnot, but my vet recommends a heavily diluted dose to be carefully used on reptiles (excluding chelonians) to get rid of mites... which a couple of our animals have due to an idiot that we had gotten a snake from earlier in the year.
anyway, does anyone use ivermectin on their reptiles? is this controversial? i know it's extremely neuro-toxic, makes me nervous. my wife had picked up one of our snakes that was in with an RI and the vet basically said that this was their 'preferred method' for irradicating those nasty things. my wife agreed to purchase some and wrote the directions down. i had just planned to use PAM - and of course, since it's an injectable medication, i can't return it. i'm willing to use it as a long as it's safe.