Deworming guide

[kalp]

Can this medicine can be given to my 935gram star tortoise for deworming. In small dosage.? And what will be precautions?

Eazypet Tablet Contains:
Praziquantel – 50 mg
Pyrantel Pamoate – 144 mg
Fenbendazole – 500 mg

 

[Tom]

Can this medicine can be given to my 935gram star tortoise for deworming. In small dosage.? And what will be precautions?

Eazypet Tablet Contains:
Praziquantel – 50 mg
Pyrantel Pamoate – 144 mg
Fenbendazole – 500 mg

Vets don't know tortoise care, but they generally DO know about medications. They know what is safe and what dosages to administer. This is a question for a qualified experienced tortoise veterinarian.

Also, you should to be worming your tortoise unless you have run a fecal sample and identified an excess of parasitic worms. Once the worm species has been identified, then the correct dose of the correct wormer can be administered.

Tortoises should not be prophylactically wormed like pet dogs and cats. Worming medication is poison. The idea is to use enough poison to kill the worms, but not enough to kill the host. This is not something to mess around with.

 

[kalp]

Vets don't know tortoise care, but they generally DO know about medications. They know what is safe and what dosages to administer. This is a question

Thank you for the information but there is no tortoise vet available here in. What should i do?

 

[zovick]

Thank you for the information but there is no tortoise vet available here in. What should i do?

Don't worm the tortoise unless you see live, wiggling worms in its stools.

 

[kalp]

Don't worm the tortoise unless you see live, wiggling worms in its stools.

0.5 to 1cm long white round worms.
In every poop 1 or 2 worms(live wiggling).
It is female indian star tortoise.
Eats well. Drink water enough.
And active.

 

[zovick]

0.5 to 1cm long white round worms.
In every poop 1 or 2 worms(live wiggling).
It is female indian star tortoise.
Eats well. Drink water enough.
And active.

In that case (and in the absence of a vet to tell you exactly what to do), you could try crushing the tablet into a powder and give the tortoise about half of the powder as the first dose. Then wait three weeks and give it the other half. Put the powder on some food item that the tortoise really likes such as a strawberry or a tomato and feed it to her by hand so you can see that she is eating it.

 

[Tom]

In that case (and in the absence of a vet to tell you exactly what to do), you could try crushing the tablet into a powder and give the tortoise about half of the powder as the first dose. Then wait three weeks and give it the other half. Put the powder on some food item that the tortoise really likes such as a strawberry or a tomato and feed it to her by hand so you can see that she is eating it.

Sound like pin worms Doc?

 

[kalp]

Sound like pin worms Doc?

Here, photo of worms i found in poop.

 

[zovick]

Sound like pin worms Doc?

Going by the size range of the worms stated by the OP, my guess would have been pinworms and possibly roundworms.

Looking at the picture posted last night, it may well be a pinworm, but it is hard to tell for sure which one it may be.

Either way, if there are live adults being passed, the infestation is probably heavy enough to warrant worming the tortoise IMHO.

 

[kalp]

Well. I have posted new thread. It has whole story of the tortoise.

Hard, Brittle White Excretion in My Indian Star Tortoise – Normal or Concern?

I am familiar with urates, but this does not look like a normal urate. It is hard and brittle. This is the first time she has excreted something like this. History of My Tortoise: Species: Indian Star Tortoise Weight: 1kg. I got her 20 days ago. Within two days, I noticed she had pinworms...

tortoiseforum.org

Please do read it and reply whether deworm her or any other advice.