Advice pls

[Chamamature]

Found out that my cham has worms. Vet said it's hard to treat chameleons, has anyone had any experience with this? Is it that common amongst chams?

 

[Willardi]

What kind of worms? Ring worms? Almost every wild caught animal from Africa I have ever seen has had Ring worms, from agamas to zorillas. get a hold of some Panacur, it is a decent dewormer.

 

[jannb]

Most parasites are very easy to treat. What kind does your cham have?

 

[suzi]

Safeguard has the same active ingredient as panacur either one will work fine.

 

[suzi]

Once a day for three days then again in two weeks
Panacur is commonly dosed at 1cc/kg. So if your chameleon happens to weigh 100 grams then you would dose with 0.1cc of Panacur paste that has a 100mg/g (10%) strength right out of the tube. It is the same for 100 mg/g safeguard
You can put it right on a hornworm, makes it easy.

 

[kinyonga]

Willardi said..."Ring worms? Almost every wild caught animal from Africa I have ever seen has had Ring worms"...are you sure you don't mean roundworms?? Ring worm is something that mammals get on the skin due to a fungus.

Many of the parasites are not hard to treat in chameleons...but you need to know what parasite it is in order to know what anti-parasite medication will kill it. Coccidia is more difficult in some cases.

 

[NinaCorrine]

I took my cham to the vet last thursday, also had worms prescribed panacur one cc for five days after a positive on a fetal float test. Mr. Chameleon has a retest tommorrow. Maximus weighs 36 grams. She charged 13 dollars for the panacur premixed and ready to go.

 

[Willardi]

Willardi said..."Ring worms? Almost every wild caught animal from Africa I have ever seen has had Ring worms"...are you sure you don't mean roundworms?? Ring worm is something that mammals get on the skin due to a fungus.

Many of the parasites are not hard to treat in chameleons...but you need to know what parasite it is in order to know what anti-parasite medication will kill it. Coccidia is more difficult in some cases.

Yeah I'm pretty sure I said what I meant.

 

[kinyonga]

You said..."What kind of worms? Ring worms?"...This is ringworm...ringworm is not a worm at all, its a fungus...
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002411/figure/A001439.B2557/?report=objectonly