Quick question: This is mostly for the sake of my corn, but the methods should be the same as for ball pythons. How the heck do you all de-worm them? Or do you not unless the snake is symptomatic.

So my corn has coccidea - very light load - but present none the less. I have spoken to two vets today, one is not a reptile specialist and one is. One (the specialist) says its not worth stressing the snake as the medication would need to be given via oral tube every day for 5 days, then every other day for two weeks. The other (small animal vet) says to treat whether the snake is showing symptoms or not because it could cause illness at a later time.

I have given injections and am very comfortable with this, however the only snake I have tubed for meds (a black snake) died during the process and I'm just not comfortable with it since, though to be fair I don't think it was the tube that killed it.

So, do you de-worm your snakes, and if so - how?

This all seems very stressful to the animal, most of which carry a base load of bugs without issue all their lives including dogs and cats (which is why most monthly heartworm meds also do GI parasites)