Stressed/nervous frogs.

[irThumper]

Lisa... You are and me are gotta have a chat! Lol why in earth did you make oral suspension of ivomec? Do you really Love to force feed? It absorbs into the blood stream, that's how it works, so either way it will have the same results.

now... I very strongly suggest you really reconsider what are you doing with your life, cos I'm totally convinced you should be a vet!
had to say what were you seeing, but these nutty swimming things were most likely protozoa, oblong things are probably lungworms and round eggs are pinworms.... It's plainly a guess without seeing anything
are you saying your frogs have all of the above? Very nice!

Ah! Oh well, heh. Actually it was the vet's idea (the fur kid vet with the pet Beardie), lol. If you knew how wretchedly horrible my math skills are you'd know why I'm not a vet or a tech or something similar! I bet those damn little bitty boogers are giardia maybe... Lucy apparently tested positive for antibodies of giardia but they didn't see any on the fecal exam. HOWEVER this was like less than a minute from out of the frog to the slide, so a turbo poo test! Everything all nice and juicy and alive-- yeesh! Ok, well I'm willing to bet those oblong clear blobs ARE the Lung worms then, since she tested positive for strongyloides. As for the other stuff, no one said she had anything else she needed to be treated for, so who knows. Ivermectin should clear most stuff up though, right? Now, will the Ivermectin work on giardia though or should I medicate her separately with the Metro or Panacur instead? I've been trying to cram so much info I think it's leaking out of my ears... I do think I read that Panacur works well to get rid of giardia though.

The vet doesn't test in house yet as he's needing to get a microscope... so I have a foot up on him, I just need to learn what the heck I'm lookin at! HEHE! I'm going to see if my dad can help me medicate the girls, if he's going to just freak out on me over it I'd best wait though. I don't want a frog getting squeezed or having an eye poked out, flexible catheter or not!

[Lija]

Careful with ivomec and whites. If there is any chance at all they might be WC, don't do it. If they have spargana, ivomec will kill them all... Massive parasite death in a blood stream.... May end up badly

[irThumper]

Careful with ivomec and whites. If there is any chance at all they might be WC, don't do it. If they have spargana, ivomec will kill them all... Massive parasite death in a blood stream.... May end up badly

Holy yikes! They are all CB- 4 from Sandfire Dragon Ranch and Martha was from NW Zoological suppliers. If the Panacur is effective against Strongyloides I could treat them with that instead to be on the safe side. I will have to look at the label again but I believe her dosage is listed as 0.01ml and Martha's is 0.02ml.