Agh internal parasites

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Originally Posted by Shelby

Problem is she doesn't want to eat. She could get a newborn pink down easy if she wanted to, but I've been resigned to force feeding rat tails for now..

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Bummer. :( Well, at least the rat tails are probably easier to get down and healthier too.

For being 6 grams, she sure gives a good fight against me and the rat tail!

Look on both of the bottles and find the concentrations(Praziquantel is per pill and Pyrantel is per mL).

I will get to calculating dosages tomorrow evening and we can get all of this ironed out. Did you get some syringes? Tuberculin(1cc), 3cc, 6cc, 10cc, 20 or 30cc should do.

I didn't get syringes yet only because I wasn't sure how many of what size to get. I am a bit tight on money and didn't want to get the wrong sizes and have to go back and get more!

concentrations: pyrantel - 50mg per mL
praziquantel - 23mg per pill

Thank you again for your help.. it's a lot of weights to calculate.. you can tell me how to do it and I'll save you the hassle.

Not a problem. I'm an old pro at calculating dosages and it only takes me a few seconds on each one. *goes to find dosages again*

Ok, just so long as it's not trouble. :)

You're going to want to grind the Praziquantel pills up very fine and mix it with ONE cc of water. Make sure it is well mixed and dissolved so you get an accurate dosage. You can also dilute it down smaller and we can calculate it that way for the smaller snakes, but I am only going to calculate the Pyrantel for the snakes under 500g because the dosage for the Prazi is much too low to even draw up.

12g albino nelson milk= 0.03-0.05mL
14g greyband king= 0.05mL
30g honduran milk= 0.05mL
98g mexican black king= 0.05mL
132g anery kenyan sand boa= 0.1mL
176g normal kenyan sand boa= 0.1mL
228g speckled king= 0.1mL
280g roughscaled sand boa= 0.15mL
290g albino cali king= 0.15mL
452g small female surinam red tail= 0.2mL
482g small male yellow anaconda= 0.25mL
528g female cali king= 0.25mL/ 0.1mL
614g ball python= 0.3mL/ 0.1mL
636g albino stripe cali king= 0.3mL/ 0.1mL
1850g female yellow anaconda= 0.9mL/ 0.4mL
2180g male surinam red tail= 1.1mL/ 1mL
2380g granite burmese= 1.2mL/ 0.5mL
4550g large male yellow anaconda = 2.3mL/ 1mL
4610g male blood python= 2.3mL/ 1mL
5000g female blood python= 2.5mL Pyrantel/ 1.1mL Prazi
7060g large female surinam red tail= 3.5mL Pyrantel/ 1.5mL of Prazi-Water mixture

WHEE! All that done in about 10 minutes, Phew...

Ok.. so the small snakes will be fine without the praziquantel? Or should I dilute it more so they get some as well?

Do I grind up all three prazi pills?

Here's a stupid question for you.. are mL increments marked on the syringes? Because I have no idea otherwise how I'd measure mL.

Ok.. and now that we have amounts measured, can you help me figure out how many of each size syringe to get? (I still have to weigh a few more snakes, but I can at least guess which size is best for them)

buy 2 syringe
1 that can store 2ml of drug and 2 that can store 5ml or 10ml .
i prefer to use 2ml syringe for small doseage.

No, you don't want to just buy 2 syringes... That would be the wonderful cause of spreading germs and diseases from snake to snake. For the smaller snakes that only weigh 20g, a 3cc syringe isn't going to cut it. It won't measure the medication down enough and you could be overdosing(not very possible with Pyrantel, but still). It just makes more sense(maybe not to the budget) to get a separate syringe for each snake(and each medication bcause mixing them sometimes renders them useless).

April, about the increments on the syringes. They are all marked, either in 100ths of a cc(1cc tuberculin), 10ths of a cc as well as every 0.2cc(3cc, 6cc). Sometimes they are marked just in 1cc increments(every line, not just what is numbered).

I hope that came out right and made sense.

Also, you want to mix one pill per cc of water. That is how I calculated the dosages based on that. You will need more pills than what you currently have though, especially with the bigger guys.