Quote Originally Posted by jaleely View Post
and, i forgot, was trying fenbendazole for parasites. one quarter microgram granual stuffed into a mouse's mouth. she only had one dose before going off of food. what do you guys think?
Oh, jeez. Don't do that. It's dosed by the animal's weight and it is poison you know. It's one of the safer ones and most garters can handle nearly twice the recommended dosage but too little and all it does is make worms resistant. How the heck did you weigh a quarter microgram? The cheapest scales that can weigh a whole microgram accurately are around $1200-$1600. How much does the snake weigh? The doseage for a 100 gram snake is around 10 milligrams, or 7.5 milligrams minimum. 7.5 milligram = 7500 micrograms. 0.25 (1/4) micrograms is only 0.00025 milligram so "1/4 microgram" can't possibly be what you gave the snake. If it turns out you gave the snake a quarter gram you overdosed by over 200 milligrams. If your snake is huge and 100 grams, like I said the doseage is only about 10 milligrams.