if you know your vet is not competent when it comes to treating reptiles...then why continue to bring your snakes there?
Well, I'm not really "continuing to bring them there". I am finishing out this one snake's treatments (they will end next week) and then I'm done with this vet. But I want him to get the meds he needs (and that I've paid for) before just leaving in a fury. -lol-

If you put a mouse in one cage and the snake doesn't eat it...then you take that mouse out and put it in another snake's cage...it is possible that the rodent picked up some infected fecal matter on its feet and then pass it on to the second snake that way. Or if you don't wash up between handling different snakes. But if you're careful with the cleanliness, don't let them share tubs or enclosures, and you don't share rodents among your snakes, its very unlikely that they will pass parasites on to each other.
None of this goes on here. Unless the parasites are floating out of the tubs through the air holes and into the next tub, I don't see how one snake could have the parasites of another.


Just treat them all once, and in 2-3 weeks re-treat. Pyrantel or Ivermectin will treat the pinworms and Praziquantel will treat the tapeworms. You can use Drontal Plus, which will kill everything except for giardia/coccidia. It shouldn't be too expensive, just buy the pills from the vet or a Tractor Supply, and I can help you with dosing/tubing the snakes(the pills need to be mixed with water and then tubed into the snake, it's easy).
Becky, I don't have any veterinarian contacts here so I don't think I'll be able to get a hold of these medications without actually going to a vet and having a float done. I don't know of anyone that would just sell me the medications because I say I need them.

The medication that he's getting isn't any of those that you mentioned. I don't remember the name of it but I'm almost positive that it started with an "A". I'll llook it up when I get home. I just find it curious that with all the medications everyone has suggested to me, the one my animal is actually taking hasn't been named. Let's hope I'm just thinking of the wrong name.