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I had been doing a little side study on D/A used in the prevention of worms mostly by placing some in food for my Red Foot population and was recommending it, However, I purchased a worm riddled female recently and she did in fact give three of my other four tortoises her roundworms. (They are now all being treated with Panacur.)
The DE is not the miracle and natural wonder that I had hoped. Now, it may be true to say that maybe because of the DE, my other tortoises did not get badly infected...But they did get infected.
I will no longer advise anyone to feed DE to their tortoises.
I had been doing a little side study on D/A used in the prevention of worms mostly by placing some in food for my Red Foot population and was recommending it, However, I purchased a worm riddled female recently and she did in fact give three of my other four tortoises her roundworms. (They are now all being treated with Panacur.)
The DE is not the miracle and natural wonder that I had hoped. Now, it may be true to say that maybe because of the DE, my other tortoises did not get badly infected...But they did get infected.
I will no longer advise anyone to feed DE to their tortoises.