Hey all,

Bought 6 pigs, 2.4. had them for a month, 12 eggs so far all incubating well, but i lost my first female today. she passed no more than an hr before i found her, very pale eyes open, and when i opened her mouth there was a white worm moving about.


so let er rip anything anyone can tell me about treating pigs for parasites, and what are my chances the rest are infected? thanks this sucks

Wish I could help here... Just wanted to say good luck, as I know there hasn't been much lately.

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You can try garlic or parazap they are natural and work for parasites if the chameleon is still in good shape and its not to late. I dust the insects with it as for meds I wouldn't know how to treat such a small chameleon.

Thanks SOcali, when it rains its pours with my chams.

Thanks dean, for some reason i garlic popped in my head too, im gunna give it a shot,

what form of garlic? any ideas? should i gut load the crix with it you think?

man it was a bummer seeing her laid out super pale, terrible way to pass

Garlic is well known through out the reptile world feed it to them and dust them you cant over do it I use garlic powder.

Dean, this is very interesting.
So, you just use garlic powder as dusting?
Is the chameleon like the taste?
What kind of parasites that can be killed via this method?

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Dodolah- where you been? Welcome back, I've been looking for you on the forum. I never heard of this garlic thing, either. Glad to know about it now. Guess I'll have to add garlic powder to the cham's medicine cabinet.

I make my own dry gutload. Should I add garlic powder to that?

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Ok so it was painful, and smelly but i got a couple chunks of garlic into the 2.3.

I found the oldest piece that was still viable, and crushed it up. placed a tiny amount on the tip of a playing card, used the playing card to jar the mouth and while it was ajar i gently pushed the mashed garlic off the card into the open mouth. i wet the garlic first, and also misted and directly watered the mouth after wards, if the chams showed any problems i removed whatever pieces that hadnt been swallowed and offered water. all took it very well but i found a male that was in badddd condition, 99% chance hes got the worms to, he was a about 2 seconds away from dying at that point. eyes sunken in, very dark. I admin 2 drops of undiluted electrodize, cleaned his body and face up ( was so weak couldnt hold himself off the ground so he was laying in dirt ) i turned on the heat source and placed him underneath for the night and went to bed knowing i wouldnt see him alive again, well i woke up this morning and he was in te same spot, holding himself up this time to get close to the eat, so i snatched him up and took him to work with me, still looks crappy but hes alive !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ive used garlic on everything from birds to dogs, with great sucess. ( I think )

I always start with a old piece of garlic to see the reaction, and with chams i like to feed the actual garlic so i know there is nothing else but garlic going into a weak cham. if the cham is fine with older garlic that isnt as strong, i will get fresh garlic and try.


wish me luck everyone

still kicking, wont open eyes though