I am confused... Baytril is not good for my snake? Like I said in the beginning, I have never had a sick reptile ever. I came here for some advice, was told George may have a URI, turned out to be pneumonia, The Vet gave him 1 shot there, showed me how to do it. So for the next two weeks, every other day, inject the meds(baytril) into George. also after the shots, was told to give him a nice warm bath, which he loves...From the #3 injection. George has stopped gaping his mouth open, and is looking better(JMO). So I am sure the medicine he is on, is helping him. If not then i will go back till he is completely better. As we would with ourselves... Thank you, maybe I will bring up that medicine, Tylan up to my Vet when he calls to see how George is doing.









Quote Originally Posted by SatanicIntention View Post
Yes, heaven forbid we take an animal to the vet for proper treatment.

I mentioned rats because they ALL carry mycoplasma bacteria, which is what Tylan treats(in pigs). Tylan is used in swine to prevent mycoplasmosis, which depresses the immune system causing respiratory infections. If it works, great, but if your snake has a specific bacteria that isn't susceptible to tylosin, and you're sticking your snake with needles for 2-3 weeks wondering why it's still sick, and ruining the snake's kidneys, when all you had to do was get a culture and put the snake on Amikacin..? What does that solve? Whole lotta nothin'!

Get a culture, find out what bacteria the snake has and what antibiotics will work, and go from there.