babies took mouse tails

[sschind]

Hi all,
I'm looking at a bottle of metronidazole (Flagyl) right now. It would be used to kill amoeba and protozoa. It also kills gram positive and some gram negative bacteria.

The treatment protocol is different for fish and for reptiles, but the bottle says to treat fish, add one tablet for each 10 gallons (38L) of water and to retreat in 24 hours. The fish (or tadpole in this case) should remain in the solution for 5 to 10 days.

If I were going to feed the fish or tadpoles to a snake, I would change their water after their treatment and give them at least a week in fresh water to pass the medication. Otherwise, you'd be treating your snake with Flagyl, which is safe, but you wouldn't want to expose any organism to low doses of medication for an extended period.

As far as collecting eggs, I don't think it would be a foolproof method, but the chances of the eggs being parasitized would be a lot less. I suppose it depends upon how heavily parasitized the water was, where the eggs came from.

The tail of a tadpole is like the yolk sac of a bird or snake... it's provided to stimulate rapid growth and is a complete nutrient source.

Aquatronics (no longer in business) used to make a product called hex-a-mit which was metronidazole. It was a powder and came in a capsule. I used to treat all my WC animals by sprinkling some of the powder on the food items once a week for three weeks or four week. I never had any of the animals tested but they always seemed to respond well and seemed much healthier than those I didn't treat.

Does anyone know where I can get metronidazole in a powder form. I have a few capsules left and I don't deal with WC anymore so it could last, but I still get WC stuff for myself on occasion and I will probably get more now that I am into the garters.

[Cazador]

Hey Steve,
I'm going to jump to another thread to answer your question because I think it will be easier to retrieve this info in the future if it's under the http://www.thamnophis.com/forum/3080-post4.html thread. Hope all is well, and your Eastern blacknecks are dreaming about reproduction . Cheers,
Rick